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Speaker 4: headlines on the blog at Mandy's blog dot com. Now,
Speaker 4: looking at how thinn the blog is, you might be thinking, Mandy,
Speaker 4: you really took the day off here. But no, when
Speaker 4: you see the deep dive that I did looking at
Speaker 4: all of the different media coverage of the situation in Aurora,
Speaker 4: whatever that is. I mean that whatever that is, because
Speaker 4: depending on what news media outlet you consume, you would
Speaker 4: think that either there's absolutely nothing to see, we don't
Speaker 4: have any gang issues, no crime in Aurora, don't look
Speaker 4: over there, or if you consume different news media, you
Speaker 4: would find out that, yeah, the police have been actively
Speaker 4: involved with this gang for a long time. Or you
Speaker 4: would find out that Mayor Mike Johnson says, oh, that's
Speaker 4: an Aurora on Denver, and you would find out that
Speaker 4: Mayor Mike Compton says, yeah, we've got a problem, but
Speaker 4: it's isolated. I mean it's it's all over the place.
Speaker 4: You like me to present you with horses mouth, yes, please?
Speaker 4: Or a Mayor Mike Kaufman was on with CMN this
Speaker 4: morning and this is what he said.
Speaker 6: Well, Mayor, all of these questions are really stemming from
Speaker 6: that viral video that show what looked like Venezuelan gangs
Speaker 6: breaking into an apartment complex.
Speaker 4: Can you provide some clarification on that. Have a rest
Speaker 4: been made?
Speaker 6: Is this part of that TDA gang or do we
Speaker 6: know any other information about how many are involved in
Speaker 6: any of these situations.
Speaker 7: You know, there there certainly have been a rest of
Speaker 7: TDA gang members, so that's that's a big concern. And
Speaker 7: so you know, again I hope to resolve this really soon.
Speaker 7: I've got you know, the interntief of police saying that
Speaker 7: it's not an issue, and I've got the property owners
Speaker 7: saying saying that it is. And so I hope to
Speaker 7: be have a meeting with the residents from.
Speaker 8: Both apartment buildings.
Speaker 7: This week as well as a meeting with representatives of
Speaker 7: the property owners this week, so we to bring this
Speaker 7: to a conclusion, you know, whether or not it's it's
Speaker 7: gang related or not. The fact is that there's obviously criminality.
Speaker 8: There and it needs to be stopped.
Speaker 7: But you know, are the are the owners doing all
Speaker 7: that they can in terms of securing their buildings and
Speaker 7: so I so there's a lot of questions, and I
Speaker 7: wish I had the answers this morning, but I don't,
Speaker 7: so at least.
Speaker 4: Mayor Mike Kaufman. I think Mayor Mike Kaufman is being
Speaker 4: the most honest. I mean, Daniel Dorinsky was put into
Speaker 4: a position and I want to defend her for just
Speaker 4: a second here. Daniel Dorinsky started sounding the alarm, only
Speaker 4: to be told by everyone else in Aurora everywhere else,
Speaker 4: Oh no, that's not an issue. You're just making this up, didn't.
Speaker 4: Governor Jared Paula said, it's a quote sigment of her imagination.
Speaker 4: At the same time, she has constituents coming to her
Speaker 4: talking about the dangerous situations at these various apartment complex.
Speaker 4: Says she actually helped move three different families out of
Speaker 4: these apartments, and the whole time she's being told sit down,
Speaker 4: shut up, let the grown.
Speaker 5: Ups handle this, and no one was doing anything. Wait,
Speaker 5: so they're pulling a Donald You are faked.
Speaker 4: Yes, they essentially tried to fake news Danielle Drensky, and
Speaker 4: the reality was she was sounding the alarm and all
Speaker 4: they had to do to get her to stop sounding
Speaker 4: the alarm was say, Danielle, here's what we know so far,
Speaker 4: here's what we're doing right now, here's how we're addressing
Speaker 4: this problem. But we don't want to blow it up
Speaker 4: into something that makes it seem even bigger like it
Speaker 4: is consumed Aurora. Instead, they tried to shut her down,
Speaker 4: tell her she was crazy, tell her she didn't know
Speaker 4: what's going on, tell her her constituents were lying to her.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's the ultimate end result. So she sounded
Speaker 4: the alarm, and the alarm is now a three alarm fire.
Speaker 4: And I'm I think that people that live in these
Speaker 4: apartment complexes are around them are probably happy. It's finally
Speaker 4: getting the attention it deserves. So you have to look
Speaker 4: at all, and I mean all of the coverage that
Speaker 4: has come out, because let me pull up the headlines
Speaker 4: really quickly. I have like seven different stories embedded, and
Speaker 4: I want to be able to cross reference because they
Speaker 4: are They're fascinating the way that our different news media
Speaker 4: outlets are handling this particular situation. I want to start
Speaker 4: with the Denver Zette because they are doing extremely complete reporting,
Speaker 4: using things like pulling police logs and getting nine to
Speaker 4: one one reports and things of that nature. And I
Speaker 4: want to share just part of this. Newly released details
Speaker 4: compiled from police written arrest affidavits, hinted of a twisted
Speaker 4: tail involving to Venezuelan brothers who allegedly intimidated other immigrants
Speaker 4: with guns and threats. Witnesses said they bragged that they
Speaker 4: owned an apartment complex in North Aurora and funded their
Speaker 4: gang by stealing from Walmart stores. But just before dawn
Speaker 4: on July twenty eighth, Janardi J. Pacheco Tiranos twenty two
Speaker 4: and his older brother, Janardi Dejezos Pacheco Chiranas, twenty four.
Speaker 4: We're part of a group of several men who terrorized
Speaker 4: residents of the Aspen Grove apartments at Nome Street with
Speaker 4: automatic weapons. It was a drunken night turned violent, according
Speaker 4: to a July thirtieth rest a warrant, and the brothers
Speaker 4: are now in ice custody. Now that is that everything
Speaker 4: that they said there happened, because they're using arrest affidavits
Speaker 4: to sort of determine what's going on with these two brothers. Now,
Speaker 4: this all happened at the Nome Street apartment complex that
Speaker 4: has already been shut down. And I want to come
Speaker 4: back to that later because we have a significant issue
Speaker 4: with affordable housing in this area and governments are coming
Speaker 4: in and they are condemning these properties. And don't get
Speaker 4: me wrong, I also embedded on the blog today the
Speaker 4: citizen reporting done by a guy named Tyler Olivera. He
Speaker 4: went to these apartment complexes and asked people the questions. Now,
Speaker 4: a lot of the residents were like, no, no, there's
Speaker 4: no gangs. No gangs. No, no, no, no gangs.
Speaker 9: No.
Speaker 4: I don't know. But some people were like, yeah, for
Speaker 4: my own security, I don't want to talk about this.
Speaker 4: And if you watch the video, it is easy to
Speaker 4: infer from the behavior of the people in the complex
Speaker 4: that they are not going to put themselves in the
Speaker 4: line of fire because when Tyler Olivera, or the police
Speaker 4: or everybody else leaves, they've got to live there.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 4: There was a press conference yesterday that was called by
Speaker 4: a bunch of residents in one of these apartment complexes,
Speaker 4: and they were rightly calling out the owners of these
Speaker 4: apartment complexes for being slum lords, which is not in doubt.
Speaker 4: I mean, all you have to do is look at
Speaker 4: the pictures. There's garbage piled up outside, there's garbage inside.
Speaker 4: They have a mice, a mouse infestation, they've got a
Speaker 4: bedbug infestation. These apartments are not habitable by any standard
Speaker 4: for human beings. So we do have a slow looard situation.
Speaker 4: But what we have is a slum lords situation meeting
Speaker 4: Venezuelan gangs. How do I know this? Because we know
Speaker 4: this because the let's see the I'm trying to figure
Speaker 4: out which one is the one that talked about The
Speaker 4: owners of the apartment complex sent a letter two not
Speaker 4: just Attorney General Phil Wiser, but also to the mayor saying, look,
Speaker 4: we have lost control of these apartment complexes. We've lost
Speaker 4: control and we need help. And now that might be
Speaker 4: just pr but here's the thing. What if they're not lying,
Speaker 4: what if there's slum lords. Let's concede to that fact
Speaker 4: they're slum lords. And at the same time they are
Speaker 4: doing even less because these gangs have taken over and
Speaker 4: their staff essentially refused to come to work anymore. We're done,
Speaker 4: We're not working anymore. So it's we've we've got this
Speaker 4: convergence of things happening and in Aurora. Now, somebody just
Speaker 4: pointed out on the Common Spirit Health text line you
Speaker 4: can always text us at five sixty six nine, and
Speaker 4: they said, Mandy, it's widely happening in Denver. The fact
Speaker 4: that Mayor Johnston is not addressing it is a bigger crime. Oh,
Speaker 4: Mayor Johnston is basically like, hey, everything's fine in Denver
Speaker 4: as long as you don't look at the homeless hotels.
Speaker 4: Forget about the trouble Tree or the meth Western. Everything's fine,
Speaker 4: everything's fine, We're doing everything right. I mean, it's absurd.
Speaker 4: You did you just come up with the last nick name? No,
Speaker 4: I did not. The meth Western has been around for
Speaker 4: a while. Oh man, the Trouble Tree in the meth Western.
Speaker 4: Are there ever been better nicknames for that? I mean,
Speaker 4: there's another hotel, but I don't think it has I
Speaker 4: don't know if it hasn't a nickname yet. Somebody will
Speaker 4: let me know if it does. Hey, Mandy says this Texter.
Speaker 4: Last night Fox thirty one had the residence of one
Speaker 4: of those apartment buildings. All they wanted was to have
Speaker 4: the place cleaned up. They're probably just used to having
Speaker 4: Venezuelan gangs around. The guy had a Venezuelan shirt on. Now,
Speaker 4: it is my understanding, and I have not verified this myself,
Speaker 4: so this could be wrong. It is my understanding that
Speaker 4: that press conference was organized by a group that is
Speaker 4: funded by government. City of Aurora, City of Denver behalf
Speaker 4: of immigrants. So they came out to say, because here's
Speaker 4: the problem, you guys. You have forty thousand Venezuelan's living
Speaker 4: in the metro area at this point, right I mean
Speaker 4: twenty thousand. They say half of them left. So twenty
Speaker 4: thousand New Venezuelan immigrants living here in the metro A
Speaker 4: vast majority of them are not criminals. They're not part
Speaker 4: of a gang. They're not here to rob people and steel.
Speaker 4: They're here because genuinely they want a better life. Now
Speaker 4: what percentage of the twenty thousand is are members of
Speaker 4: a gang? I don't know. I have no idea, but
Speaker 4: I have to believe it's not a vast majority. So
Speaker 4: you're trying to balance not turning people against people who
Speaker 4: came here for a better life, who are trying to
Speaker 4: live here, work here, do the right thing. They want
Speaker 4: to raise their families here. You don't want to cast
Speaker 4: them in the same light as these gang members, right,
Speaker 4: I mean, it's not fair. It's really not fair. Now
Speaker 4: I could argue about their methodology of coming to the
Speaker 4: United States walking across the southern border. I mean, we
Speaker 4: could talk about that for a while, can I I'm
Speaker 4: to have a sidewinder just for a second, you guys.
Speaker 4: I have a friend whose husband is Irish. They have
Speaker 4: been married for twenty three years. She lived in Ireland
Speaker 4: for many years now. They've been moved back to the
Speaker 4: United States. He is trying to get the final paperwork
Speaker 4: to be a naturalized part of the United States of
Speaker 4: America because he's been married to an American woman for
Speaker 4: twenty three years and he now has to do another
Speaker 4: immigration interview and he has to do it in the UK.
Speaker 4: That's how absurd our immigration system is. I mean, it's
Speaker 4: just insane what he is and the money that they've spent.
Speaker 4: So it doesn't shock me or surprise me that someone
Speaker 4: would try to take the cheater's way out and just
Speaker 4: walk across the southern border and be welcome with open arms.
Speaker 4: But the reality is not all of these people are
Speaker 4: bad people, but the reality is also that some of
Speaker 4: them are some of them are very bad people. So
Speaker 4: now we're in this situation where Aurora is getting a
Speaker 4: massive black eye, even though I believe and if you
Speaker 4: live in Aurora, you can comment on the text line
Speaker 4: about your current situation. But we all know, first of all,
Speaker 4: Aura is ginormous, right, It's a huge land mass, massive
Speaker 4: land mass, So it stands to reason that Aurora is
Speaker 4: still the same as it's been for a long time.
Speaker 4: When people ask me about Aurora, this is what I say,
Speaker 4: in Aurora. You can drive down a street and you
Speaker 4: can see beautiful neighborhood on the right, beautiful neighborhood on
Speaker 4: the left, and then you drive a half a mile
Speaker 4: and you're literally in the slums.
Speaker 5: I used to live in a part of Aurora. You
Speaker 5: literally would not go far like oh this is nice. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and then real quick, oh oh wow, this.
Speaker 4: Is what we talk about. Oh yeah, I mean, Aurora
Speaker 4: is is really a tale of two cities. And you
Speaker 4: can have parts of Aurora that are just gorgeous and
Speaker 4: wonderful and they have good restaurants and you're like, yes,
Speaker 4: let's go, and then you go into other parts where
Speaker 4: you're pretty sure you're gonna be shot. So Aurora already
Speaker 4: has these issues. And Mayor Mike Kaufman, to his credit,
Speaker 4: by the way, Mayor Mike Kaufman, has no power in
Speaker 4: Aurora none. He is a figurehead. The real power comes
Speaker 4: from the city manager, John Batchelor, who he's the one
Speaker 4: in charge of the police department. He's the one in
Speaker 4: charge of public safety. And I haven't seen him anywhere now.
Speaker 4: I understand he's off this week or some I don't know,
Speaker 4: but he's been nowhere and he's the one with all
Speaker 4: the power. He's the one that makes all the money.
Speaker 4: So Mayor Mike Kaufman is out there basically doing PR.
Speaker 4: He's doing powerless PR. He's trying to save whatever reputation
Speaker 4: that Aurora has been slowly but surely building back up.
Speaker 4: I think under the current leadership of the current city Council,
Speaker 4: their aggressive approach to homelessness that is about WorkFirst and
Speaker 4: housing secred I mean, there are some really great stories
Speaker 4: to tell in Aurora right now. This apartment complex situation
Speaker 4: is not one of them. I would have lost something
Speaker 4: up to you guys, and as a libertarian, I am
Speaker 4: loath to have government insert itself into an account of
Speaker 4: private industry. But hear me out. So Aurora already condemned
Speaker 4: one of these apartment complexes on Nome Street. But instead
Speaker 4: of now you've kicked all these people out at a
Speaker 4: time where we don't have enough affordable housing, right, we
Speaker 4: don't have enough housing units. So instead, here's my plan.
Speaker 4: If I were running things in Aurora, I would simply
Speaker 4: say to the slan lords, you have four weeks to
Speaker 4: clean up everything. Four weeks to clean up everything. We'll
Speaker 4: give you the security that you need during the day,
Speaker 4: but you have four weeks to clean it all up.
Speaker 4: If it's not cleaned up and you're free of code
Speaker 4: violations and everything else, then we are going to seize
Speaker 4: your building, but we're not kicking anybody out. We're going
Speaker 4: to then contract a company to come in and clean
Speaker 4: up all the code violations, and then we are going
Speaker 4: to contract a company to manage the property for the
Speaker 4: next year, and then in a year, we are going
Speaker 4: to sell that apartment complex to a company that will
Speaker 4: run it. Probably will shoot for lowally owned, so we
Speaker 4: don't have any distance saw lords, and we're going to
Speaker 4: fix this problem instead of just condemning it. So they
Speaker 4: make their money back from all of the repairs and
Speaker 4: everything they've done by selling the complex in a year
Speaker 4: to someone else. But you've solved the problem and let
Speaker 4: people stay in their homes. Oh, Jason Bachelor, not John,
Speaker 4: thank you for that. Thank you for the correction. Texter Mandy,
Speaker 4: it's inhumane to invite these people here by not protecting
Speaker 4: the southern border, only to have them live in these conditions.
Speaker 4: I agree wholeheartedly, but this is one of my personal
Speaker 4: concerns based on personal experience. When you bring in people
Speaker 4: from essentially what has become a third world country. They
Speaker 4: bring their third world country habits with them. I mean,
Speaker 4: just like things like and I'm not talking about Venezuelan's
Speaker 4: because Venezuela was a developed economy for a very long time.
Speaker 4: But when you're talking about some places in Ecuador and
Speaker 4: Guatemala and these developing nations where they don't have plumbing
Speaker 4: that can handle toilet paper and things of that nature,
Speaker 4: they bring all of those habits with them, and I
Speaker 4: find that very concerning, very concerning. So it's like the
Speaker 4: slum lords are no longer collecting rents. The gang is
Speaker 4: collecting rents now. They lost control of their revenue stream.
Speaker 4: I don't Here's the thing. I don't care. If I
Speaker 4: am in an apartment complex and all of a sudden
Speaker 4: people stop paying rent because they said they were paying
Speaker 4: to gang members, the first thing I would do is
Speaker 4: fly here from wherever I was, and I would go
Speaker 4: meet with the police force and say I need help
Speaker 4: cleaning up this complex. But the reality is is they've
Speaker 4: been slum lords for a long time. The city of
Speaker 4: a War has had an ongoing issue with this particular
Speaker 4: company for a long time.
Speaker 5: If the gangs are taking over and if they are
Speaker 5: taking people's rent, I wonder if they're asking, like for
Speaker 5: less Well, to encourage give it to us for less Well.
Speaker 4: The people who live in these complexes say they're not,
Speaker 4: they're paying rent to the management company. But again, and
Speaker 4: I think that the people living in these complexes are
Speaker 4: scared and they have to live there at night when
Speaker 4: all the cameras leave, and they're in a situation where
Speaker 4: they don't feel like they have other good options. So
Speaker 4: I don't know how real that is, but I guess
Speaker 4: the slow lords are flying in and they're meeting with
Speaker 4: mayor and others tomorrow to sort of sort this out.
Speaker 4: And if I'm the slow lords, this is what I do.
Speaker 4: I say, take the building, take it, just take it,
Speaker 4: take away their spie. I don't want to deal with
Speaker 4: it anymore because the building probably isn't worth that much
Speaker 4: at this point because it's been so badly damaged. So
Speaker 4: I don't know when we get back. I want to
Speaker 4: read some of your text messages. If you live in Aurora,
Speaker 4: and I mean any part of Aurora, tell me your
Speaker 4: story on the text line. Do you still feel safe
Speaker 4: walking around your neighborhood? Are you still going to the
Speaker 4: same restaurants. Can you still shop in the same areas
Speaker 4: or are you still comfortable living in your home? Because again,
Speaker 4: Aurora is massive, and I don't think this is a widespread,
Speaker 4: massive problem. I think it's an extremely significant an issue
Speaker 4: in a very small part of Aurora. We'll be back
Speaker 4: right after this our chief meteorologist from Fox thirty one,
Speaker 4: Dave Fraser. Dave Fraser, how are you today? I'm good.
Speaker 10: How you doing, Mandy, I'm doing well.
Speaker 4: I heard a little rumor that we're going to get
Speaker 4: some fall tomorrow, Like sweater weather is right around the corner.
Speaker 11: It's a brief duck around the corner, and then we'll
Speaker 11: take another corner and go back to that Warman drive.
Speaker 4: Yeah day, nice a little turn.
Speaker 11: Yeah a Rod wasn't happy with Meaty there.
Speaker 4: So we count on you to fix the weather the
Speaker 4: way we like it, Dave, not just the way you're
Speaker 4: predicting we need it. Was like, so, what are we
Speaker 4: looking at nice day tomorrow and then back up for
Speaker 4: the weekend. Is it going to be that fast?
Speaker 11: It won't be that fast. So today we're getting a
Speaker 11: seasonal correction. Last couple of days we've been in the
Speaker 11: hot nineties, it was ninety three on Sunday and ninety
Speaker 11: three on Labor Day, ninety four yesterday. So today we're
Speaker 11: going to be around season, which is eighty four, and
Speaker 11: then tomorrow we'll be in the load of mid seventy rushing. Yeah,
Speaker 11: and so we've got two coal fronts coming in. One
Speaker 11: is actually coming in right now. You'll look outside, you'll
Speaker 11: see the building clouds. We should start to get into
Speaker 11: showers and thunderstorms here pretty quickly, which will take us
Speaker 11: into the evening. They will be scattered, and some of
Speaker 11: that could linger past midnight into early Thursday before kind
Speaker 11: of drizzling showers wrap up with some late day sunshine.
Speaker 11: But you'll feel the refreshing change tomorrow. And then the
Speaker 11: other quarter that we'll turn is to head back to
Speaker 11: the upper eighties to near ninety degrees, but it'll take
Speaker 11: several days to inch back in that direction, so lower eighties,
Speaker 11: mid eighties uper ratings, and then maybe close to ninety
Speaker 11: degrees early next week. And once we get past tonight
Speaker 11: and tomorrow morning's chance for rain. Unfortunately, the forecast does
Speaker 11: look dry, although that's what we expect in September, one
Speaker 11: of the best months of the year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so any anything on a ten day, two week
Speaker 4: outlook that's positive orre we just going to stick around
Speaker 4: with this kind of weather through September, you know. I, as.
Speaker 11: Always before I get on here with you, I do
Speaker 11: the six to ten day, which is just a little
Speaker 11: beyond our normal seven days that we discab on TV.
Speaker 11: I do the eighth to fourteen day. I do the
Speaker 11: one month, the three months. I look at all of it,
Speaker 11: and everything as it has all summer long, continues to
Speaker 11: show above normal temperatures and below normal precipitation. And while
Speaker 11: we talked about this in the past, that never tells
Speaker 11: you anything about the day to day weather, that pattern
Speaker 11: has certainly proved out. We ended up with the second
Speaker 11: warmest June an average July for temperatures, fifth warmest August,
Speaker 11: and second warmest.
Speaker 8: Summer on record for Denver, only behind the.
Speaker 11: Hottest summer, which was twenty twelve.
Speaker 4: Now to be clear, and I actually sent you a
Speaker 4: text about this the other day. On record is since
Speaker 4: eighteen seventy two, and it's first reading to me that
Speaker 4: we don't clarify that because on record sounds like well,
Speaker 4: the beginning of record keeping went back thousands of years
Speaker 4: and when you consider how cyclical weather is in ten
Speaker 4: thousand year and one hundred thousand year, you know, spans
Speaker 4: to say on record, I think it gives an impression
Speaker 4: that people this is like of all time, and that's
Speaker 4: not at all what we're talking about.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's a tough sell, right because of exactly what
Speaker 11: you said, the cyclical nature of thousands and thousands of years.
Speaker 11: The only thing we could compare it to is that
Speaker 11: record of history, and it is a short one, but.
Speaker 8: It's the only thing we have to compare.
Speaker 11: And in Denver it's a little frustrating because I get
Speaker 11: this from viewers all the time. Denver's weather records have
Speaker 11: been kept in four different places. Twice downtown, then it's
Speaker 11: Stapleton for the longest time, and then I think it
Speaker 11: was in nineteen ninety one it transitioned over to DA
Speaker 11: the airport, which is obviously removed from downtown. So there's
Speaker 11: always this speculation if we're breaking a record that was
Speaker 11: set at the airport, or we break in a record
Speaker 11: that was set downtown. Of course you have to look
Speaker 11: at what year it was set in. But it's the
Speaker 11: only body that we have to be able to compare.
Speaker 11: The other thing is technology. Think about mercury thermometers back
Speaker 11: in the eighteen hundred versus today's. You know, digital means,
Speaker 11: and there's rounding of temperatures, you know, So when you
Speaker 11: look at hourly observations, you'll see ninety six point two,
Speaker 11: ninety six point four, ninety six point eight. And then
Speaker 11: you do all the averaging for your monthly averages, taking
Speaker 11: all the highs and the lows, adding them together, dividing
Speaker 11: out by the number of days in a month to
Speaker 11: come up with an average, to be able to compare
Speaker 11: month to month to month over a series of years.
Speaker 11: So listen, It is not a perfect science, but it
Speaker 11: does give you a little bit of an understanding. To say,
Speaker 11: Denver's average is eighty four today and I tell you
Speaker 11: it's going to be ninety four. I think you can
Speaker 11: make the comparison.
Speaker 10: That's a hot day.
Speaker 11: Yeah it is.
Speaker 4: And I think in Denver, moving that weather station from
Speaker 4: downtown to the airport it is significant, maybe more significant
Speaker 4: here because the airport's on the planes, right, I mean,
Speaker 4: it's it's a completely different weather area in a lot
Speaker 4: of ways. And I do think that those changes are
Speaker 4: probably more jarring than they would be if we move
Speaker 4: from a similar climate to another similar climate at different place.
Speaker 4: I mean, do you find that to be true?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I would agree with you on that one hundred percent.
Speaker 11: As a matter of fact, on the National Weather Service website,
Speaker 11: if you look for under their climate tape, you'll find
Speaker 11: a snow comparison and what it will do is it
Speaker 11: will show you contours of total snow over averages for
Speaker 11: where the records were kept. And you can see the
Speaker 11: snow totals are a little higher when they were downtown
Speaker 11: and a little less as you move out towards the airport.
Speaker 11: And that has to do with exactly what you said,
Speaker 11: the topography. It's not a huge difference.
Speaker 8: We're not talking feet of difference between where the.
Speaker 11: Sites were originally recorded versus the airport, which is, you know,
Speaker 11: nineteen miles away. But you can see those subtle differences,
Speaker 11: and it has to do with the sloping of the topography.
Speaker 11: The closer you get to the footals in the mountains,
Speaker 11: obviously the totals are deeper the more you move out
Speaker 11: into the planes that are a little bit lower. So,
Speaker 11: you know, no surprising to see that it is not
Speaker 11: a perfect, as I said, a perfect opportunity to compare,
Speaker 11: but it is the only comparison we have.
Speaker 4: Well, on that note, I sent you an email. Did
Speaker 4: you get Craigs the email that I afforded to you.
Speaker 11: I did, and it's top the list of craigcent he
Speaker 11: pulled from both weather dot Com and Craig's up in
Speaker 11: longmant Craig for thanks for sending in the question. He
Speaker 11: pulled Wikipedia averages for Denver, and he also went to
Speaker 11: weather dot com for averages for Denver. So I pulled
Speaker 11: up the list that he sent.
Speaker 10: He pulled it.
Speaker 11: The problem is anybody can edit Wikipedia, as you know.
Speaker 11: So I went in and I looked just for comparison
Speaker 11: to see. And what I can't figure out is if
Speaker 11: the numbers Craig included in his spreadsheet for June, July,
Speaker 11: and August he was looking at the summer of twenty
Speaker 11: twenty four was from a site possibly in downtown Denver,
Speaker 11: versus the quote unquote at the airport. So I'll give
Speaker 11: you it for instance, So on the first of August
Speaker 11: he reported Denver hit one hundred and one. On the
Speaker 11: second of August his report shows one hundred. Well, the
Speaker 11: airport reported ninety nine on the first and one hundred
Speaker 11: and one on the second and then he had ninety six.
Speaker 11: They had ninety six, and then he had ninety nine.
Speaker 11: They had one hundred and two. So the numbers don't jive.
Speaker 11: The averages are going to be very different.
Speaker 4: Well, I think the lesson is still everything from Wikipedia
Speaker 4: should be looked at with a skeptical eye.
Speaker 11: Absolutely, yeah, absolute, and if you want, if you want official,
Speaker 11: Despite everything we just talked about, the only record keeping
Speaker 11: we have that is considered official based on the National
Speaker 11: Weather Service, who is the record keeping organization for weather
Speaker 11: across the country, is that site out at the airport,
Speaker 11: and the official record can be found on their website,
Speaker 11: and that's where.
Speaker 4: I would go to get the official numbers to the
Speaker 4: Texter you just sent, No, Mandy, the planes are on
Speaker 4: the airport, haha, sir or madam haha. Ralph asked the
Speaker 4: question that I was going to ask you because I
Speaker 4: heard a little news story about this. Are we currently
Speaker 4: in La Nina or El Nino or neither? And what
Speaker 4: can we expect for winter? In that respect, we are
Speaker 4: in La.
Speaker 11: Nina kind of heading towards the neutral and the outlook
Speaker 11: for winter. I don't know that there's been a conclusion
Speaker 11: yet whether we'll slip back to Lamina. We will determine
Speaker 11: that in the coming month to what impacted they have
Speaker 11: it does have. Lamina and El Nina do have different
Speaker 11: impacts to east versus west across Colorado, and who benefits
Speaker 11: and who doesn't. We should be able to work that out.
Speaker 11: Those are numbers that come out all the time. As
Speaker 11: matter of fact, when I look at the climate data
Speaker 11: for the outlooks that I was just telling you about
Speaker 11: six to ten, the eight to fourteen, the three months,
Speaker 11: all of that is based on where we are when
Speaker 11: it comes to those types of patterns for El Nino Lamina.
Speaker 11: So for right now, you know the next November persistent.
Speaker 11: You know they're looking at Lamina to emerge in September,
Speaker 11: and so we may be leaning more towards La Nina
Speaker 11: from September through November. We'll have to wait and see
Speaker 11: if that changes a little bit for the latter part
Speaker 11: of winter, which made the December, January and februe. Don't
Speaker 11: discount March in April for us here in Denver, Personelo
Speaker 11: and for.
Speaker 4: That person who's in there cargoing. But what's the difference
Speaker 4: between La Nina and El Nino.
Speaker 11: It's the difference in the temperatures of the Pacific waters
Speaker 11: La Nina colder, warmer, and it changes the jet streams
Speaker 11: flow across the Pacific, and that's the storm track that
Speaker 11: comes into the United States, the the continuous United States
Speaker 11: from west to east. So depending on what the ocean
Speaker 11: waters are doing, the jet stream will kind of fluctuate
Speaker 11: a little bit, and the movement of that jet can
Speaker 11: change across Colorado and how it comes over the mountains
Speaker 11: from more of a northwesternly flow or a southern track.
Speaker 11: Those differences in the tracks across the state from north
Speaker 11: to south highly influenced where storms will set up and
Speaker 11: who will benefit from those different storm systems. So a
Speaker 11: southern tract will benefit the front range, a northwestern tract
Speaker 11: will benefit more. Northwestern Colorado will be a little drier,
Speaker 11: and it also influences temperatures as well. So those things
Speaker 11: are taken in, but they're like the long range outlook.
Speaker 11: It's not a day to day. We stable the day
Speaker 11: to day. We get into the nitty gritty, we get
Speaker 11: into the details. We're looking for the hard numbers. Then
Speaker 11: when it starts, when it ends, how much you're shoveling
Speaker 11: all of that kind of stuff, and you.
Speaker 4: Can find out all that nitty gritty every single day
Speaker 4: on Fox thirty one. They're great meteorology staff can keep
Speaker 4: you up to date. And Dave Fraser, we appreciate you.
Speaker 4: We'll talk to again next week.
Speaker 8: I have a great week and weekend.
Speaker 4: All right, that is Dave Fraser. We will be right
Speaker 4: back from you. Aurora rights. What do you call people Aurorans?
Speaker 4: That doesn't sound good, Aurorans or a What do we
Speaker 4: call the people of Aurora? I ran closest. I don't know.
Speaker 4: That doesn't sound good though. That's not a good sounding name, Aroon.
Speaker 4: Nothing else sounds good Aurorans, Aurora anyway. A lot of
Speaker 4: you weigh in, A lot of you weigh in. And
Speaker 4: this one says Mandy. I'm fifty years old and I've
Speaker 4: lived in Aurora my entire life. Other than four years
Speaker 4: in Fort Collins, I've steadily moved southeast over time to
Speaker 4: the nicer areas of Aurora to get my kids in
Speaker 4: the Cherry Creek School district. I know exactly the areas
Speaker 4: of Aurora to avoid, in which ones are generally nice
Speaker 4: and peaceful. My daughter and her friends wanted to go
Speaker 4: see their high school football team play in Aurora Public
Speaker 4: School team at the APS Stadium next to Hinckley High
Speaker 4: School last Friday. Knowing that that is not a good area,
Speaker 4: my wife and I said they could not go without us.
Speaker 4: Unsurprisingly to me, multiple fights broke out in the stands
Speaker 4: and in the parking lot shortly after halftime. Multiple police
Speaker 4: and other emergency vehicles were dispatched to the area to
Speaker 4: control the situation. My daughter and her friends were horrified,
Speaker 4: but they will not doubt me again when I tell
Speaker 4: them which areas are good or bad. Someone posted and
Speaker 4: he sent a video. We can't. I can't get videos
Speaker 4: on the text line. Guys, I can't get photos. I
Speaker 4: can't get any of that stuff on the text line.
Speaker 4: So oh wait, he said it via another text so
Speaker 4: it's an Instagram. I'll look at that on the break, Mandy,
Speaker 4: Are there Venezuelan gangs an Aurora or not? Of course,
Speaker 4: conflicting reports, and that's really what we've been talking about
Speaker 4: earlier on the show. It's like, can we just get
Speaker 4: accurate reporting. The Denver Gazette seems to be the only
Speaker 4: news outlet that can actually file an open records request
Speaker 4: for things like police affidavits and arrest records. A lot
Speaker 4: of other news media outlets my news are just talking
Speaker 4: to people like Governor Jared Polis and he's like, no,
Speaker 4: it's fine, and they're like, oh, okay, all right, there
Speaker 4: you go. There you go. Hi, Mandy. I've been a
Speaker 4: resident in Aurora since nineteen seventy seven, still live here.
Speaker 4: Up until the year two thousand, Aurora was a great
Speaker 4: city to raise a family, and crime has progressively gotten
Speaker 4: much worse over the last twenty four years, but the
Speaker 4: worst parts are in certain neighborhoods, particularly where the Venezuelan
Speaker 4: gang apartments are. My wife and I and our three
Speaker 4: little kids lived in the Nome Street apartments thirty one
Speaker 4: years ago and it was a nice community then. Now.
Speaker 4: I do still feel relatively safe in the majority of
Speaker 4: the city elsewhere, minus random guns fired off and bad drivers. Mandy,
Speaker 4: Aurora is dealing with big city problems, but not equipped
Speaker 4: for it. Most of Aurora is fine, including my neighborhood.
Speaker 4: By the way, the city, they can't just take a property.
Speaker 4: It takes multiple trips to court with multiple fines, usually
Speaker 4: reduced by judges to give a second chance before you
Speaker 4: can contemplate condemning it so they could get control. The
Speaker 4: biggest problem is all the players may be telling the truth,
Speaker 4: which shows the complexity. And I think that's part of it,
Speaker 4: is that I do think there's truth in all of this.
Speaker 4: There are Venezuelan gangs, there are slumlords, there are all
Speaker 4: of these issues. But in trying to solve the problem
Speaker 4: without just condemning the building, because we already have a
Speaker 4: shortage of affordable housing, and I think one of the
Speaker 4: reasons that the residents are keeping things to themselves are
Speaker 4: number one, they don't want to put themselves in the
Speaker 4: line of fire, but number two, they're afraid they're going
Speaker 4: to be thrown out on the street like the Nome
Speaker 4: Street people were, and that they're not going to have
Speaker 4: any place to live, and that a roof is better
Speaker 4: than no roof.
Speaker 12: Right.
Speaker 4: So I'm looking, I'm trying to spitball here how to
Speaker 4: solve this problem. And I am loath to say that
Speaker 4: the government should ever be able to seize a property.
Speaker 4: But if I'm may Or Kaufman and I am Jason
Speaker 4: Batchelor and I meet with these slum lords tomorrow, I
Speaker 4: handle a list of code violations and the fines that
Speaker 4: go with it, and I say, you have one month
Speaker 4: to solve all these problems and pay all of your
Speaker 4: code violation fines, or you can just give us the property.
Speaker 4: What do you want to do? Property can't be worth
Speaker 4: much now at all, you know, make it hard enough
Speaker 4: that you then seize the property. You then contract out
Speaker 4: somebody to come in and fix everything that's wrong with it,
Speaker 4: and then you hire a management company and then you
Speaker 4: sell it in a year. You don't keep it. That
Speaker 4: would be what I would recommend, but you know that's
Speaker 4: just me. Mandy. I've been a resident in Aurora since
Speaker 4: nineteen seventy so, oh wait a minute, hang on. I
Speaker 4: lived in Aurora all my life. I carried mail and
Speaker 4: Aurora for thirty years and delivered to all of those apartments.
Speaker 4: They've been run down, low income places for as long
Speaker 4: as I can remember. It hurts my heart to see
Speaker 4: how far my city has fallen, and that my friends
Speaker 4: is right there people who live and grow up in Aurora.
Speaker 4: It's heartbreaking. I think for Mayor Mike Kaufman, it's heartbreaking.
Speaker 4: I know that Mayor Mike Kaufman, I know that Daniel Drinsky,
Speaker 4: I know that everyone on the city Council loves Aurora,
Speaker 4: or they wouldn't be putting themselves out there trying to
Speaker 4: fix the problems, but acting like there isn't a problem
Speaker 4: when there obviously is one. It's just bad advice, really
Speaker 4: bad advice, because now it's exploded into way more than
Speaker 4: it needed to be.
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Speaker 4: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show.
Speaker 4: I am your host, Mandy Connell, joined of course by
Speaker 4: Anthony Rodriguez. It now joined by Rep. Gabe Evans. He
Speaker 4: is running in the eighth Congressional district against Representative Yadiro Caraveo,
Speaker 4: and he would love to be your next member of Congress. Gabe,
Speaker 4: welcome back to the show.
Speaker 10: First off, always great to be on with you, Mandy.
Speaker 4: Gabe and I were just talking before he came on.
Speaker 4: And I tell candidates this all the time, that they
Speaker 4: want to come on in like June July of an
Speaker 4: election year. I go, No one's paying attention to you
Speaker 4: until after Labor day. So here we are after Labor
Speaker 4: Day and the track meet to election day is on.
Speaker 4: I want people to know a little bit about you, Gabe,
Speaker 4: because I think your story, your backstory is just a really,
Speaker 4: really good one. So tell people who is Gabe Evans.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean my story starts with my grandparents on
Speaker 9: my dad's side, career naval officer on my mom's side.
Speaker 9: Actually an immigrant to the United States from Mexico, earned
Speaker 9: his citizenship with two purple hearts in World War Two,
Speaker 9: And so you know, I was born and raised in Colorado,
Speaker 9: spent twelve years in the US Army, another ten years
Speaker 9: in law enforcements, and then because of what's happened to
Speaker 9: public safety in Colorado, I stepped away from law enforcement.
Speaker 9: In twenty twenty two, ran for and won my state
Speaker 9: House seat down at the state Capitol of Denver. Been
Speaker 9: fighting down there for two years to try to just
Speaker 9: restore some common sense. We know we have a crime problem,
Speaker 9: we know we have an affordability problem. The fact, you know,
Speaker 9: I'm married, My wife and I've been married for fifteen years.
Speaker 10: We got two boys.
Speaker 9: The fact that Colorado is the number two state in
Speaker 9: the nation for teenagers overdosing and dying on fentanyl is
Speaker 9: abhorrent to me. That's why I got involved in politics
Speaker 9: after twenty two years in the military and law enforcement.
Speaker 9: That's why I'm running for Congress now in the eighth
Speaker 9: Congression district. We have got to fix these problems.
Speaker 4: Well, let's talk specifically about some of those issues. Let's
Speaker 4: start with crime. You know, we the last hour of
Speaker 4: the show, I talked about this massive story out of Aurora,
Speaker 4: and depending what news media outlet you listen to, there's
Speaker 4: either a huge gang issue in Aurora or there's nothing.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's the coverage of this story has been
Speaker 4: really amazing to me to see the broad nature of
Speaker 4: either dismissiveness or panic that is on display. But it's
Speaker 4: a real problem in Congress. What do you do to
Speaker 4: help with the problems that we're having here in Colorado
Speaker 4: when it comes to crime.
Speaker 7: Again.
Speaker 9: So I was a cop in the Denver metro area
Speaker 9: from twenty eleven to twenty twenty two.
Speaker 10: And what we know is there's three big driving factors
Speaker 10: that are.
Speaker 8: Going on here.
Speaker 9: Number One, we've got a wide open southern border. We've
Speaker 9: got transnational criminal organizations and cartels that are coming into
Speaker 9: the United States. But then problem number two is what
Speaker 9: the progressive left has done.
Speaker 10: Here in Colorado.
Speaker 9: They've literally defunded the police. They have voted for those policies.
Speaker 9: They've lowered the penalties.
Speaker 10: For drug dealing, for breaking into cars, for everything that
Speaker 10: you can think of.
Speaker 9: And so that's attracted these cartels, these transnational criminal organizations.
Speaker 9: Out of the fifty states in the United States, they're
Speaker 9: going to go to places like Colorado because the state,
Speaker 9: the Progressive Democrats and the state have handcuffed law enforcement.
Speaker 9: And then that leads to the third issue that we have,
Speaker 9: which is that cops in Colorado would love to be
Speaker 9: able to enforce the law, but they can't because of
Speaker 9: the policies that the folks down at the state Capitol
Speaker 9: and the folks the.
Speaker 10: Progressive Dems in Congress have passed.
Speaker 9: In Colorado, right now, it is illegal for a police
Speaker 9: officer to pick up the phone and call Immigration and
Speaker 9: Customs and say, hey, we got somebody in our communities
Speaker 9: causing problems, who's here illegally.
Speaker 10: Come to port this individual. That phone call is illegal
Speaker 10: to make.
Speaker 9: It became illegal in twenty nineteen, and my Democrat opponent
Speaker 9: voted for that piece of legislation. We've got to secure
Speaker 9: the border, we've got to empower our state and local
Speaker 9: law enforcement, and we've got to get rid of these
Speaker 9: defund the police, pro crime policies that the progressive left,
Speaker 9: to include my opponent, has championed.
Speaker 4: You know, some in Congress have said, look, we're even
Speaker 4: and I believe, and I don't want to put words
Speaker 4: in her mouth, but I believe I've heard Lauren Voebert
Speaker 4: support this notion which is defunding sanctuary cities, defunding sanctuary states.
Speaker 4: Would that be something that you would support as a
Speaker 4: threat in order to rescind these laws that you're talking
Speaker 4: about right now, kind of force the hand of Colorado lawmakers,
Speaker 4: because we've just seen that when threatened with something like
Speaker 4: two ballot initiatives on property taxes, they can be brought
Speaker 4: to heal just a little bit, right, Is that something
Speaker 4: you would support?
Speaker 9: So I swore three oaths to uphold and defend the
Speaker 9: United States Constitution, US Army, Colorado Army, and National Garden.
Speaker 10: As an our Battle police officer had.
Speaker 9: Deployed to combat zone for the better part of a
Speaker 9: year to uphold and defend the US Constitution, which barely
Speaker 9: clearly states that the US Constitution, and all federal laws
Speaker 9: made in accordance thereof are the supreme law of the land.
Speaker 9: So yeah, absolutely, when you have states like Colorado that
Speaker 9: blatantly ignore what the federal government is doing when they're
Speaker 9: trying to secure the border, and when we have folks
Speaker 9: like immigration and Customs and the Border Patrol, and the
Speaker 9: State of Colorado comes along and says, nah, we're not
Speaker 9: going to even let our state and local.
Speaker 10: Law enforcement officers work with their federal counterparts.
Speaker 9: That's a major problem, and that's something that we need
Speaker 9: to address at the congressional level as part of the
Speaker 9: broader conversation about how do we secure the border, how
Speaker 9: do we make sure folks like my grandfather, you know,
Speaker 9: who earned his citizenship in World War Two with two
Speaker 9: purple hearts, who wanted to be a part of the
Speaker 9: American dream.
Speaker 10: How do we make sure that we keep the.
Speaker 9: Bad folks out and that we continue to be that
Speaker 9: shining city on a hill for those folks who legally
Speaker 9: want to come here be a part of the American dream.
Speaker 9: And how do we make sure that those laws are
Speaker 9: being enforced and respected by states?
Speaker 10: Colorado's not doing it.
Speaker 9: They're a plaitant sanctuary state, and that's a big part
Speaker 9: of the problem.
Speaker 4: So let's shift gears just a little bit and talk
Speaker 4: about cost of living. Because cost of living has some
Speaker 4: national components to it, it also has some local components
Speaker 4: to it in terms of you know, housing and things
Speaker 4: of that nature. What do you see your role in
Speaker 4: Congress as how do you rein in the cost of
Speaker 4: living as a member of Congress.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so the first thing with the cost of living
Speaker 9: is just understanding the broader impacts, you know, the things
Speaker 9: that have an impact on our economy. I'm sure we'll
Speaker 9: talk about this here in a minute, but we've brokened
Speaker 9: a pretty historic agreement with the Libertarian Party here in Colorado,
Speaker 9: and one of the things that they talk about a
Speaker 9: lot is the fact that are literally our money supply, Right,
Speaker 9: This is when we talk about inflation.
Speaker 10: That's the money supply.
Speaker 9: The money supply is controlled by things like the Federal Reserve,
Speaker 9: and we don't have a good understanding at the congressional
Speaker 9: level of how the Federal Reserve is doing some of
Speaker 9: its internal business. We need to have policies like auditing
Speaker 9: the Fed, but we also need to make sure that we're.
Speaker 10: Taking the handcuffs off of our economy. And so that's
Speaker 10: things like here in the eighth Congressional District energy agriculture.
Speaker 9: The eighth Congressional District has the fourth highest energy producing
Speaker 9: county in the nation.
Speaker 10: It has the eighth highest agricultural producing county in the
Speaker 10: nation in the north. And then the southern part of
Speaker 10: the district is.
Speaker 9: The commerce, the transportation, the road networks, the truckers that
Speaker 9: are actually taking these raw materials, turning it into a
Speaker 9: usable good and distributing across the rest of Colorado.
Speaker 10: It is a multi billion dollar driver for the region.
Speaker 9: But as we all know, when energy gets more expensive
Speaker 9: because of the laps of war on American energy, when
Speaker 9: agriculture gets more expensive because you know, and this isn't me,
Speaker 9: this is some of the farmers in the region that
Speaker 9: I've talked to that said that my Democrat opponent ass
Speaker 9: to the single most damaging bill in a decade or
Speaker 9: Colorado agriculture. Guess what that drives up the cost of agriculture.
Speaker 9: All of these costs are passed on to consumers.
Speaker 10: So to get the cost of living under control, we.
Speaker 9: Also need to make sure that we're focused on things
Speaker 9: like taking the handcuffs, the red tape of the bureaucracy
Speaker 9: of our economy, producing American energy, producing American agriculture, and
Speaker 9: then allowing our transportation networks to be able to actually
Speaker 9: process and get that stuff to market. When you can
Speaker 9: do that cheaper and more efficient by cutting red tape,
Speaker 9: that drives costs down for Americans, that empowers our economy.
Speaker 9: That's how we make Colorado in the eighth Congressional District
Speaker 9: in an affordable place.
Speaker 10: Those are the things that I support. My opponent, as
Speaker 10: we said, she's voted against all of those things. She's
Speaker 10: a pro big government, pro red tape democrat, you know,
Speaker 10: one of the.
Speaker 4: Things that has not really come to the United States yet,
Speaker 4: but I do worry about on a consistent basis when
Speaker 4: it comes to agriculture. We've seen this attack in Europe
Speaker 4: on nitrogen based fertilizers. We've seen farmers in certain parts
Speaker 4: of Europe being told that they can only plant a
Speaker 4: certain number of crops, which is so counterintuitive too, when
Speaker 4: you have to feed people, To tell farmers that they
Speaker 4: can't use the products that help food grow. How, I mean,
Speaker 4: what do you think about that kind of stuff? Because
Speaker 4: I think that's all part of the green New deal
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 10: Yeah, absolutely, my opponent is one hundred percent bought into
Speaker 10: the Green New Deal.
Speaker 9: She costs this district billions of dollars in the energy sector.
Speaker 9: Energy and agriculture go hand in hand. When diesel goes up,
Speaker 9: agriculture becomes more expensive and you pay more for that
Speaker 9: at the store. So she's cost this district billions and energy,
Speaker 9: and exactly what you described is what she's done to agriculture.
Speaker 9: When you have government bureaucrats with no background in agriculture
Speaker 9: who are then micromanaging how Armors and ranchers literally the
Speaker 9: original stewards of the environment, because.
Speaker 10: If they don't take care of their soil, if they
Speaker 10: don't take care of.
Speaker 9: The environment, if we don't have clean air and we
Speaker 9: don't have clean water, guess what else, You can't grow
Speaker 9: your crops as efficiently as if we did take care
Speaker 9: of the environment.
Speaker 10: Farmers and ranchers are the original stewards of our land,
Speaker 10: our water, our air.
Speaker 9: It's in their best economic interests to take good care
Speaker 9: of those things, and that means we need to allow
Speaker 9: them the flexibility to be able to make those decisions,
Speaker 9: to be able to leverage emerging technologies, emerging trends, and
Speaker 9: when you have folks that, as you said, are micromanaging
Speaker 9: what they can and can't do, that has an incredibly
Speaker 9: negative impact not just on the cost of producing these goods.
Speaker 10: But it has a negative impact on the economy.
Speaker 9: Excuse me, it has a negative impact on the economy,
Speaker 9: but it has a negative impact on the environment as well.
Speaker 4: So it sounds to me, Gabe, and you know you
Speaker 4: can correct me if I'm wrong. You sound very sort
Speaker 4: of data and results driven. And if that's the case,
Speaker 4: I have to ask you about ethanol subsidies because ethanol
Speaker 4: subsidies have distorted a marketplace under the guise of giving
Speaker 4: us better energy efficiency, of energy efficiency and things of
Speaker 4: that nature that have not proven to be to work
Speaker 4: out the way that they have worked out. But the
Speaker 4: farm lobby is very strong and they don't want to
Speaker 4: give up their ethanol subsidies. Where do you stand on that,
Speaker 4: if you have an opinion at all.
Speaker 10: I like things that work.
Speaker 9: You know, when I was flying a Blackhawk helicopter overseas
Speaker 9: in a combat zone, things get really really simple.
Speaker 10: If it works, do it. If it doesn't work, don't
Speaker 10: do it. Because that's a really, really dumb reason.
Speaker 9: To crash and explode a helicopter because you tried something
Speaker 9: that looked really good on paper but doesn't actually work
Speaker 9: in reality. And so that's where I stand on all
Speaker 9: of these you know, alternative forms of energy. If they work,
Speaker 9: let's do it absolutely.
Speaker 10: But if they don't work, if you have to continue
Speaker 10: to subsidize and subsidize and subsidize them, then that's not
Speaker 10: actually producing energy efficiency, that's not actually taking good care
Speaker 10: of our environment. I'll give you a precise example.
Speaker 9: Here in Colorado, we often hear about, you know, zero
Speaker 9: emission electric cars.
Speaker 10: Well, this isn't my data, this is the State of
Speaker 10: Colorado data.
Speaker 9: The electric grid in Colorado produces about fifty percent more
Speaker 9: carbon per megawatt of produced energy than just pure natural gas.
Speaker 9: So every time we're plugging something into the electrical grid
Speaker 9: you're in Colorado. Again, not my data, this is state data.
Speaker 9: Every time we plug something into the electrical grid in Colorado,
Speaker 9: it's actually producing fifty percent more carbon.
Speaker 10: For a unit of energy producer than if we just
Speaker 10: used natural gas.
Speaker 9: These are the conversations that we need to have to
Speaker 9: ensure that we're actually producing energy that were energy independent.
Speaker 10: And when we do those things, that actually work.
Speaker 9: We can reduce our carbon footprint by having more natural
Speaker 9: gas right here in Colorado.
Speaker 10: My opponent's opposed to it, she's voted against it.
Speaker 9: I support American energy because that actually lowers our carbon footprint.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm speaking with Gabe Evans. He's running in the
Speaker 4: eighth congressional district. And Gabe, not for nothing. If we
Speaker 4: really truly and we are one of the world's largest,
Speaker 4: if not the world's largest energy producer now, but if
Speaker 4: we truly unleash our enemy our energy economy, it also
Speaker 4: cuts the knees out of some of our geopolitical foes, right.
Speaker 4: It cuts the knees out from under Russia, It cuts
Speaker 4: the knees out from under Saudi Rape who is an ally,
Speaker 4: but I don't trust him. I'm going to be perfectly honest.
Speaker 4: And that's one of the things that we don't talk
Speaker 4: about enough, is that if we truly really exploited all
Speaker 4: of our energy options, we would be able to not
Speaker 4: only power our own economy, but also create big problems
Speaker 4: for Russia and for other bad actors around the world.
Speaker 4: Who's their entire economy is their oil economy. I mean,
Speaker 4: why don't we talk about that more?
Speaker 10: Oh, we need to talk about it more. And the
Speaker 10: big one that we've left out so far is China.
Speaker 9: China is making more and more stuff with dirty coal
Speaker 9: and with quite literally slave labor.
Speaker 10: So every time we're.
Speaker 9: Exporting jobs and energy production from the United States, it's
Speaker 9: going to places like China.
Speaker 10: That are producing it again in an inhumane, environmentally catastrophic manner.
Speaker 10: And so we need to talk about that. We need
Speaker 10: to talk about how if we truly.
Speaker 9: Want to take care of the environment, we've got to
Speaker 9: make sure that we're bringing jobs, that we're bringing production,
Speaker 9: that we're bringing energy back to the United States. Because
Speaker 9: here we produce it more efficiently than anywhere else in
Speaker 9: the world, we produce it more humanely than anywhere else
Speaker 9: in the world.
Speaker 10: And if we're truly.
Speaker 9: Concerned about global you know, the global carbon footprint, what
Speaker 9: we need to do is make sure that we're not
Speaker 9: sending things to China where they produce it with five
Speaker 9: ten times the amount of carbon that we could do
Speaker 9: it with here in the United States.
Speaker 10: And the absolute worst part about all of this is
Speaker 10: that pollution blows right back here to Colorado.
Speaker 9: We've got satellites we can track where this stuff goes again.
Speaker 9: State of Colorado data says that seventy percent of the
Speaker 9: air pollution in Colorado doesn't actually originate in Colorado. So
Speaker 9: when you have folks like my opponent that have blatantly
Speaker 9: voted numerous times against the American energy economy, they're not
Speaker 9: actually doing anything for the environment either.
Speaker 10: They're costing us jobs.
Speaker 9: But we're still reaping all of the pollution from places
Speaker 9: that produce it less.
Speaker 10: Efficiency and less responsibly, because it again, it blows right
Speaker 10: back here in Colorado.
Speaker 4: Your campaign, gab just got a really good shot in
Speaker 4: the arm when the libertarian candidate in the eighth Congressional
Speaker 4: district dropped out and has removed his name from the
Speaker 4: ballot and endorsed. You tell me about how that all
Speaker 4: came about.
Speaker 9: Well, it's what the American people want us to do.
Speaker 9: The American people want good government. They want responsible adults
Speaker 9: who can sit down, who can have a conversation, who
Speaker 9: can find and collaborate on the common ground.
Speaker 10: And then actually move things forward.
Speaker 9: You know, that's what I tell everybody. I've buried entirely
Speaker 9: too many friends in military and law enforcement. I've sworn
Speaker 9: three oaths up to and including my life, so I
Speaker 9: know those things that I will never compromise on because
Speaker 9: I literally put my life on the line and I
Speaker 9: buried friends who made the ultimate sacrifices stand for those things.
Speaker 9: I know those things I'll never compromise when I can
Speaker 9: collaborate with anybody, And that's what the Libertarian Party and
Speaker 9: I did.
Speaker 10: We sat down.
Speaker 9: Of course, there was the original pledge a couple of
Speaker 9: months ago. There were some things that we couldn't agree on,
Speaker 9: but we sat down, we have the conversation. We realized, look,
Speaker 9: we agree on about ninety percent of the stuff. So
Speaker 9: we drafted a pledge two point zero that we could
Speaker 9: both agree on, and that really does highlight those things
Speaker 9: that we care about, small limited government, making sure that
Speaker 9: we respect individual liberty, making sure that we're focused here
Speaker 9: on the United States critical things like securing our borders,
Speaker 9: and so.
Speaker 10: By sitting down, by having that conversation.
Speaker 9: Once again, what we've shown is that you know, I'm
Speaker 9: willing to work with anybody that's focused.
Speaker 10: On these issues.
Speaker 9: The Libertarians were fantastic partners in promoting our shared visions
Speaker 9: and ideals for things like small government, individual liberty, accountability
Speaker 9: for federal agencies like the Federal Reserve, and moving the
Speaker 9: ball forward, and so it truly is a you know,
Speaker 9: we talked about the phrase bipartisan all the time. This
Speaker 9: is really something now where I'm tripartisan. I've worked with
Speaker 9: the Libertarians, we've found that common ground. But as a
Speaker 9: state legislator, you know, I'm in the Mike super minority
Speaker 9: down at the state Capitol, nineteen Republicans to forty six
Speaker 9: Democrats in the state House, and I still got almost
Speaker 9: sixty percent of my bills passed because I'm able to
Speaker 9: work across the aisle there. That's what I'm focused on.
Speaker 9: How do we move the ball forward? How do we
Speaker 9: make sure that we're passing on to future generations the
Speaker 9: same American dream that my grandfather mia Ethel gave to
Speaker 9: me when he immigrated here to this country.
Speaker 4: You know, I think you have to use the language
Speaker 4: of today. You're polypolitical, that's what you are. You're not
Speaker 4: you engage with all political parties there, Gabe, I do
Speaker 4: want to ask you one question from our text line,
Speaker 4: because I think it's a question that a lot of
Speaker 4: people have and I bet you have a good answer
Speaker 4: for it. Hey, Mandy, please ask Gabe, what are we're
Speaker 4: going to start seeing commercials from him. I live in
Speaker 4: the eighth district. I've not seen a single one, but
Speaker 4: I see one from his opponent every five minutes, And
Speaker 4: I want to use that as a springboard to ask
Speaker 4: you about the challenges going on at the state party
Speaker 4: and how that has affected your campaign in terms of
Speaker 4: the support that you have gotten or not gotten from
Speaker 4: the state campaign. It just kind of give me a
Speaker 4: minute on that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, So really two things there.
Speaker 9: Number one, Conservatives, we are the fiscally responsible party. And
Speaker 9: so as you yourself said kind of at the beginning,
Speaker 9: you know, after Labor Day is when folks start tuning in,
Speaker 9: and so I'm not going to waste my money on
Speaker 9: a bunch of campaigns in advertising before Labor Day.
Speaker 10: So don't worry. The ads will be here as you.
Speaker 8: Know, real quick.
Speaker 9: We're in like single digit days now, So the advertising
Speaker 9: for for the Gabe Evans campaign is going.
Speaker 10: To start your fast and furious.
Speaker 8: But the other part of this is.
Speaker 9: These things are expensive to be able to run a
Speaker 9: good team. The ad is close to a million dollars
Speaker 9: and so if anybody's listening to this wants to help
Speaker 9: you keep me on the air again, we have enough
Speaker 9: to get us on the air for quite a bit,
Speaker 9: but if anybody wants to help keep us on the
Speaker 9: air once we go on, elect Gaveevans dot com is
Speaker 9: the website to elect g A v e e v
Speaker 9: a ns dot com.
Speaker 10: You can go there learn more about me.
Speaker 9: There's a donate button there, and that's going to be
Speaker 9: a really critical part of making sure that we get
Speaker 9: our message out because folks are sick and tired of
Speaker 9: the high prices, the high crime, the stentanyl crisis, the
Speaker 9: border crisis that my Democrat opponent has voted lockstep with
Speaker 9: the Biden Harris regime on.
Speaker 4: Gave Evans is my guest, and when we talk about
Speaker 4: the dumpster fire that is the state party right now,
Speaker 4: I always say, find the candidates you like and give
Speaker 4: them money. And if you like what gave Us had
Speaker 4: to say today, take that money you might have donated
Speaker 4: to the state party and put it directly into his
Speaker 4: coffers so he can win the eighth congressional district. Gabe,
Speaker 4: I think your race is in highly winnable. I think
Speaker 4: you're the right candidate to win that race, and I
Speaker 4: look forward to talking to you after the election, if
Speaker 4: not before, to be able to congratulate you. On your victory.
Speaker 4: So let's let's do the assumed clothes on that one
Speaker 4: and and uh, we'll be in touch again before the election.
Speaker 4: I can assure you.
Speaker 10: Always great to be on with you, Mandy, Thanks so much.
Speaker 11: All right.
Speaker 4: That is Gabe Evans, and I put a link on
Speaker 4: my blog to his website, so if you'd like to donate,
Speaker 4: and trust me, guys, these candidates are dealing with no
Speaker 4: support from the state party as it tries to sort
Speaker 4: itself out, so this is really important that you go
Speaker 4: ahead and donate directly to these candidates. If you like
Speaker 4: what you're hearing, we'll be right back, Mandy. I'm a
Speaker 4: Democrat because we just interviewed Gave Evans from the eighth
Speaker 4: congressional district race, and if you missed it, you can
Speaker 4: always go to our mandysblog dot com page look for
Speaker 4: latest posts and a Rod's going to put that podcast up.
Speaker 4: If you live in the eighth congressional district, I'd love
Speaker 4: you would share that podcast with people because I think
Speaker 4: that is an incredibly winnable race and I actually think
Speaker 4: Gave Evans is a fantastic candidate. I watched him for
Speaker 4: the first time at the Weld County Women's rumbles that
Speaker 4: they had, and he was debating Janet Joshi, who was
Speaker 4: the carpetbagger from the Springs that was backed by Dave Williams.
Speaker 4: And in that interview it became apparent to me very
Speaker 4: quickly that Gabe had a really good handle on the
Speaker 4: issues of the eighth Congressional District. And he wasn't just
Speaker 4: saying things because he thought they would rile up the
Speaker 4: crowd or be inflammatory. He's just very even keeled, has
Speaker 4: a good head on his shoulders, shares a lot of
Speaker 4: my same value systems. So I'm a big fan of
Speaker 4: Gabe Evans. And yes, I know I misspelled Gabe on
Speaker 4: the blog. I just didn't fix it yet. I put
Speaker 4: Gabe and that that was an auto correct. So I
Speaker 4: want to share this text message Mandy. I'm a Democrat,
Speaker 4: but I actually don't care for Caraveo too much and
Speaker 4: I'm considered voting for the guy. But I do have
Speaker 4: a couple of questions. Hopefully maybe you can ask him
Speaker 4: what is his stance on abortion too? How is he
Speaker 4: going to come back Donald Trump if he's the party
Speaker 4: of fiscal conservatism, Because Donald Trump led us to a
Speaker 4: gigantic deficit. That is an absolutely fair criticism. First, on
Speaker 4: the abortion issue, he has said he believes it is
Speaker 4: a state issue to be decided at the state level.
Speaker 4: He would be in favor personally of a ban on
Speaker 4: abortion for everyone except in cases of rape, incest, and
Speaker 4: the health of the mother. But he has essentially punted
Speaker 4: and said it's a state issue. We know in Colorado
Speaker 4: it is not going to be illegal. I don't know
Speaker 4: if it ever will. I can't imagine the kind of
Speaker 4: sea change it would have to happen here for abortion
Speaker 4: to be limited in any way, shape or form in Colorado.
Speaker 4: Because every time there's a ballot initiative, every time there
Speaker 4: is an opportunity for Colorado's to weigh in at the
Speaker 4: ballot or give their opinion through a vote, they have
Speaker 4: shot down any of restrictions on abortion. Which is why
Speaker 4: in Colorado it is legal to have an abortion up
Speaker 4: to the day of birth. And for all of you
Speaker 4: who are reaching for the text line to tell me
Speaker 4: I'm wrong, it is not wrong. It happens here. And
Speaker 4: there is a doctor in Boulder who specializes, I guess,
Speaker 4: in late term abortions, and even on their website it
Speaker 4: says mostly women do this because of a health issue.
Speaker 4: Mostly got to pay attention to those qualifiers, so he
Speaker 4: does not favor a federal abortion ban. I will say
Speaker 4: that let's talk about the deficit buster for a second,
Speaker 4: because the deficit buster is an accurate, absolutely accurate accusation
Speaker 4: against Donald Trump. But it just pulled up some numbers
Speaker 4: that I want to share and to give you some
Speaker 4: perspective about why we have a thirty five thirty six
Speaker 4: trillion dollar debt now because of deficit spending. And I
Speaker 4: want to take you back to two thousand and nine.
Speaker 4: Now we all know what happened to two thousand and eight.
Speaker 4: The market absolutely crashed. We had a devastating great recession.
Speaker 4: It was terrible, and the government's response was to print
Speaker 4: a whole bunch of money and eventually set the table
Speaker 4: for the inflation that we've had over the last couple
Speaker 4: of years. Because inflation doesn't happen overnight. Although historically, and
Speaker 4: this is accurate, I have looked it up and confirmed
Speaker 4: that what I'm about to say is true every period
Speaker 4: of and I don't ways say hyper inflation because we
Speaker 4: didn't have hyperinflation. Hyper Inflation is when prices are going
Speaker 4: up one hundred percent every day. We just had a
Speaker 4: period of steep inflation. It is always preceded by a
Speaker 4: flood of the money supply, and that's exactly what the
Speaker 4: Federal Reserve did during COVID. They wanted the federal government
Speaker 4: to be able to continue to spend like drunken monkeys,
Speaker 4: which they did, and not have to pay the pipers.
Speaker 4: So they dropped interest rates to darnaar zero and they
Speaker 4: kept printing money so the federal government could spend it.
Speaker 4: That was the whole thing. But let's go back to
Speaker 4: two thousand and nine. Deficit spending in two thousand and
Speaker 4: nine was one point four trillion dollars, twenty ten, one
Speaker 4: point twenty nine trillion dollars, twenty eleven, one point three
Speaker 4: trillion dollars, twenty twelve, one point oh seven seven trillion dollars.
Speaker 4: And then in twenty thirteen we started to get interact
Speaker 4: together a little bit, and we dropped down to just
Speaker 4: six hundred and eighty billion dollars twenty fourteen, four eighty five,
Speaker 4: and these are billions four forty two and twenty fifteen.
Speaker 4: We're starting to make progress. Twenty sixteen, Donald Trump gets elected,
Speaker 4: the deficit was five hundred and eighty five billion dollars
Speaker 4: twenty seventeen up to six sixty five, twenty eighteen, up
Speaker 4: to seven seventy nine, twenty nineteen, up to nine eighty four.
Speaker 4: Now I felt somewhat vindicated in this because I was
Speaker 4: the one that told everybody in this listening audience that
Speaker 4: Donald Trump was not going to do anything about the deficit.
Speaker 4: And people told me I was crazy. Donald Trump was
Speaker 4: going to fix that too. He did not fix that too.
Speaker 4: And that takes us to twenty twenty COVID COVID spending
Speaker 4: three point one three to two trillion dollars in one
Speaker 4: year in spending, and twenty twenty one was even not
Speaker 4: even worse, but certainly not better, two point seven to
Speaker 4: seven trillion dollars in deficit spending, twenty twenty two to
Speaker 4: one point three in deficit spending. And if you remember,
Speaker 4: there was, you know, a midterm and deficit spending in
Speaker 4: twenty twenty three one point six trillion dollars. Both Donald
Speaker 4: Trump and Joe Biden suck on the deficit. Suck. They're
Speaker 4: a huge part of why we have these massive deficits.
Speaker 4: But they're not the only ones. Everyone in Congress is
Speaker 4: responsible for these deficits. And by the way, these deficits,
Speaker 4: they're not made up money, they're our money. Deficits have
Speaker 4: to be paid back in a few ways. Number One,
Speaker 4: you can raise taxes, that's how you pay off the debt.
Speaker 4: Or you can print more money, which causes inflation, which
Speaker 4: is a tax on the American people as well. And
Speaker 4: you can also cut spending, which obviously Washington has no
Speaker 4: desire to do so. Trump exploded the deficit during COVID,
Speaker 4: but the Biden administration has been very slow to bring
Speaker 4: it down. No one is good and Kamala Harris is
Speaker 4: out there running around talking about how she is going
Speaker 4: to give up certain first time home buyers twenty five
Speaker 4: thousand dollars, which is going to inflate the housing market
Speaker 4: even more. She's talking about all these giveaway programs she's
Speaker 4: trying to buy votes. She is an absolute disaster on
Speaker 4: the debt and deficit, and Donald Trump is not much better.
Speaker 4: The whole tariff thing that he's talking about is just
Speaker 4: a dumb idea. It's pretty much failed every time it's try.
Speaker 4: But yet here we are again trying to figure out
Speaker 4: a way to bring back the manufacturing jobs to the
Speaker 4: United States instead of trying to help people pivot to
Speaker 4: the service spased economy that we have right now. I
Speaker 4: would love to have more manufacturing jobs. I would love it.
Speaker 4: I think it would be amazing because manufacturing jobs are
Speaker 4: a ladder to the middle class for people. But the
Speaker 4: reality is is I don't think they're coming back. It's
Speaker 4: too expensive to produce things here. The regulatory structure, minimum wages,
Speaker 4: things of that nature. It just makes it hard to
Speaker 4: compete with China, which pays people nothing and doesn't worry
Speaker 4: about environmental concerns. They don't care. So I'd love to
Speaker 4: tell you that Donald Trump is going to be amazing
Speaker 4: on the deficit. I don't think he will be. But
Speaker 4: all that being said, I do know people that are
Speaker 4: on Trump's economic advisory team, and they Steve Moore being
Speaker 4: one of them. He's a major deficit hawk. So if
Speaker 4: there's a chance that someone's going to get through to
Speaker 4: either one of these candidates, the advisors around Kamala Harris
Speaker 4: suck and the advisors around Donald Trump on the economy
Speaker 4: are much better on these things. So if you're gonna
Speaker 4: throw a dart board, you know, throw a dart against
Speaker 4: the dart board and shooes, which one's going to be better.
Speaker 4: You have to look at the whole picture. And there's nothing,
Speaker 4: not one single thing in the Kamala Harris economic Plan
Speaker 4: that says we're going to do anything about the deficit. Nothing.
Speaker 4: So I don't trust either of them. I wish I
Speaker 4: had better news. I wish I could forcefully make the
Speaker 4: case that Donald Trump was going to be a deficit
Speaker 4: hawk and do something about the debt, because guys, we're
Speaker 4: headed for a debt crisis. We're headed for the kind
Speaker 4: of crisis that makes us no longer the world's reserve currency.
Speaker 4: We're headed for the crisis that ends our reign as
Speaker 4: the world's leader when it comes to finances and economics.
Speaker 4: And it's going to be very very ugly when it happens,
Speaker 4: and it's only getting worse. And the American people don't
Speaker 4: care because they're too stupid to know what it looks
Speaker 4: like when all of this debt crisis actually happens, because
Speaker 4: they've been so poorly educated about economics and the effects
Speaker 4: that they think. Some of these young people think socialism
Speaker 4: is the way to go. It's almost like they didn't
Speaker 4: see all of the ways that socialism has failed. And
Speaker 4: before anybody writes to me about the Nordic countries, if
Speaker 4: you want to have a high services government like they
Speaker 4: have in the Nordic countries, then get ready to open
Speaker 4: your wallet, not rich people's wallets, because if you look
Speaker 4: at the tax structure in those high service, high tax
Speaker 4: Nordic countries, everybody pays. Everybody pays twenty percent of their income.
Speaker 4: Everybody pays at least twenty percent of their income. Some
Speaker 4: of the tax burdens are over fifty five percent. So
Speaker 4: if you want to if you want to high services
Speaker 4: like that, then you got to pay for it, because
Speaker 4: there's not enough rich people in the world to pay
Speaker 4: all of those taxes, all of those prices for all
Speaker 4: of those people. Melatonin. No, I have no problem sleeping.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, that's good. That's because you're young. I enjoy
Speaker 4: it while you can. Okay, every morning when you wake
Speaker 4: up well arrested, I want you to just say, you
Speaker 4: know what, God, thank you for that. I know you're
Speaker 4: going to strip it away from me as I get older,
Speaker 4: but you know, thanks for that.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 4: Well, I have news and this is actually oh dag nabbit.
Speaker 4: I didn't put the link on this story crap anyway,
Speaker 4: I know what it says. So studies have shown that
Speaker 4: melatonin is not a good answer for long term sleep
Speaker 4: disorders because melatonin is has been used somewhat successfully if
Speaker 4: you travel a lot and you need to reset your
Speaker 4: circadian rhythms when you get back, or you get to
Speaker 4: wherever you're going and you want to jump into their
Speaker 4: times or jump back into your own time zone. But
Speaker 4: there's been no long term studies that have shown that
Speaker 4: it's been helpful for sleep issues in the long term.
Speaker 4: I've known this for years because everybody's like, when I
Speaker 4: say I don't sleep well, I'm actually sleeping better now.
Speaker 4: The Soda Weight Lost plan not only helped me lose weight,
Speaker 4: but it helped me understand that there are certain things
Speaker 4: I cannot eat at night and go to sleep. It's
Speaker 4: just not I got to eat early, which I started
Speaker 4: with my vocal cord issues. I try to be done
Speaker 4: eating by life. And then it taught me a lot
Speaker 4: about what to eat to be able to sleep. So
Speaker 4: now I'm sleeping better than I have in a really
Speaker 4: long time. But I've tried melatonin, and it's not a
Speaker 4: good answer for long term sleep disorders. But the article
Speaker 4: which I will go back and find because it was
Speaker 4: actually very interesting. Talked about the fact that a vast
Speaker 4: majority of Americans we're not sleeping well. And then a
Speaker 4: Rod sends me this video today on the show or
Speaker 4: this morning rather about a nightly routine that can change
Speaker 4: your life. And it's very simple things, and it's amazing
Speaker 4: how many of us in our society we always look
Speaker 4: for a pharmacological solution first, and the pharmacological solutions are
Speaker 4: not perfect. Now on occasion, I have used ambient in
Speaker 4: the past. Chuck was a long time ambient user until
Speaker 4: it made him into a horrible person, horrible version of himself.
Speaker 4: And I finally was like, you have to stop taking
Speaker 4: this because you're becoming a horrible person. And he was
Speaker 4: thankfully wise enough to recognize that I'm not just saying
Speaker 4: that to be mean. But then I found out that's
Speaker 4: very common with Zambian if you take it too long.
Speaker 4: But then, how many of us are doing the things
Speaker 4: on a daily basis? And if you've listened to the
Speaker 4: show for a long time, I want you to hear
Speaker 4: what I'm about to say in Michelle's Oehner's voice. How
Speaker 4: many of us are doing the things that we need
Speaker 4: to do every single day to be a happy, healthy human.
Speaker 4: Are you getting exercise, are you going outside? Are you
Speaker 4: spending time with friends and family? Are you feeding your
Speaker 4: body nutritious foods? Are you setting yourself up for success?
Speaker 4: For sleeping at night? If you're on your phone until
Speaker 4: eleven o'clock and then you put your phone down and
Speaker 4: you're like, oh, I can't sleep, well, you can't sleep
Speaker 4: because you just had the entire world in your hand.
Speaker 4: And Aaron had sent me this video, and I was like,
Speaker 4: these five little things really would make a difference, just
Speaker 4: from disc connecting from the phone early enough and reading
Speaker 4: a book. I know some people say I don't really
Speaker 4: like to read. Great even better, you'll only have to
Speaker 4: read for a few minutes before you fall asleep. Set
Speaker 4: your plan for tomorrow. I do this every night. I
Speaker 4: look at my calendar for the next day, kind of
Speaker 4: have my mental order of the way things are going
Speaker 4: to go. And these little things just setting yourself up
Speaker 4: for success. It's all about that. It's all about having
Speaker 4: a great bed. Go to NMAX for that. I think
Speaker 4: we solve that problem a long time ago. So when
Speaker 4: we get back in the next hour at pray there's
Speaker 4: coming on you, guys. The real estate market is very
Speaker 4: interesting right now. We have a lot of buyers sitting
Speaker 4: on the sidelines in what I call ready set mode,
Speaker 4: ready set, ready set, ready set, and they're just waiting
Speaker 4: for a rate drop, which I and I'm not usually like,
Speaker 4: I'm certain about this. I feel very good based on
Speaker 4: the labor number adjustment down. They took away a million
Speaker 4: jobs roughly that they had said had been created, which
Speaker 4: we're not so that. And inflation is it's manageable now.
Speaker 4: It's like two point I don't know, two point seven
Speaker 4: percent whatever, not the two percent that the Fed wants,
Speaker 4: but it's much lower than it was a few years ago.
Speaker 4: So I think we're gonna get a rate cut in
Speaker 4: September and maybe another one in December. So we're gonna
Speaker 4: talk to Ed Pratherer at two thirty about what to expect.
Speaker 4: If you've been thinking about selling, you're ready to go.
Speaker 4: We'll be talking about the best time to put that
Speaker 4: home on the market when we get back. I want
Speaker 4: to give a big shout out to Gwyneth Paltrow. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that Gwyneth Paltrow, And you're not gonna believe what for
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Speaker 4: talk about Gwyneth Paltrow today because you guys know I
Speaker 4: always talk about Hollywood. That's a lie. I don't always,
Speaker 4: But Gwyneth Paltrow. Our friend Christian Toto at Hollywood intoto
Speaker 4: dot com wrote a really good column called Gwyneth Paltrow
Speaker 4: on hamas where are the Feminists Now? We got news
Speaker 4: this past weekend that six hostages who had survived almost
Speaker 4: a year in captivity. One one of them, heirsh Goldberg
Speaker 4: poland his parents, just appeared at the Democratic National Convention.
Speaker 4: He lost part of his arm in the initial attack
Speaker 4: on October seventh, but had been seen fairly recently, I guess,
Speaker 4: and they knew he was alive. Hammas, when they were
Speaker 4: faced with the idf coming through the tunnel that they
Speaker 4: were holding these people in, apparently brutally murdered them just
Speaker 4: before Israel was able to rescue them in what is
Speaker 4: absolutely yet another war crime committed by Hamas. Now, of course,
Speaker 4: the world's reaction, including our idiot president Joe Biden, was well,
Speaker 4: Israel's not dooming enough to get the hostages back, not hey,
Speaker 4: what a war crime by Hamas, or hey, it's been
Speaker 4: Hamas who's turned down all of the ceasefire deals that
Speaker 4: had been offered, even the ones that Israel a great too.
Speaker 12: Well.
Speaker 4: Gwyneth Paltrow went to Instagram and she posted the following.
Speaker 4: She said, to the families of each hostage whose life
Speaker 4: was stolen, I have thought of you every day for
Speaker 4: eleven months, but today I send you my heart. There
Speaker 4: are still seventeen women being held by Hamas. Where are
Speaker 4: the feminists? She added the hashtag hashtag rape is not resistance.
Speaker 4: The silence from Hollywood and the feminist community on this
Speaker 4: has been deafening. The same women who ran around and
Speaker 4: told us that we had to believe all women, no
Speaker 4: matter how ridiculous their stories were. And I'm talking about
Speaker 4: Christine GLASI Ford there on that one. We had to
Speaker 4: believe all women. And boy howdy, they were ready to
Speaker 4: support women who came out after Harvey Weinstein with a
Speaker 4: like a pack of wild animals. Not to say he
Speaker 4: didn't deserve it, but they were united in their condemnation
Speaker 4: of that. And yet we know, we absolutely know, because
Speaker 4: Harmas live streamed the rapes of women on October seventh.
Speaker 4: We know that women were raped, and yet Hollywood has
Speaker 4: been very, very very quiet. So I guess we're supposed
Speaker 4: to be believe all women unless they're raped by organizations
Speaker 4: that are anti Israel, in which case, go for it.
Speaker 9: Just go for it.
Speaker 4: Even the Babylon Bee Christian points out beautifully. Even the
Speaker 4: Babylon Bee jumped on this by tweeting out a photo
Speaker 4: of Bill Cosby wearing a Hamas headband, and it says
Speaker 4: Bill Cosby joins Hamas so feminists will stop condemning him
Speaker 4: for rape. He likes that when it's a little too
Speaker 4: close to home. By the way, there are there are
Speaker 4: women in Hollywood that have been sounding the alarm. Deborah
Speaker 4: Messing who is Jewish, Galgado who is Israeli. They've been
Speaker 4: out there screaming about this stuff for a very long time.
Speaker 4: And it's a very good question. It's a good column.
Speaker 4: It's very short. You can read it at the blog
Speaker 4: or at Hollywood intoto dot com. But that's not the
Speaker 4: only feminist story we got on the blog today. We
Speaker 4: have a couple of things about feminism today on the blog,
Speaker 4: and one of them, I guess that's not really about feminism.
Speaker 4: But I will share this story very very quickly because
Speaker 4: it's bothered me since I saw it a couple of
Speaker 4: days ago, or yesterday maybe. The Douglas County Sheriff's office
Speaker 4: over the Labor Day weekend, they were doing increased enforcement.
Speaker 4: They were pulling over people for drunk driving, and they
Speaker 4: shared the story of a woman. Friday afternoon, at three pm,
Speaker 4: deputies responded to a call about a vehicle weaving erratically
Speaker 4: before crashing. The driver reportedly attempted to leave the scene
Speaker 4: by ramming the victim's car to push it out of
Speaker 4: the way. Turns out that this driver was a forty
Speaker 4: year old mom from Castle Pine, so you know how
Speaker 4: we know she's a mom because her two children we're
Speaker 4: in the back seat. And I'm not going to name
Speaker 4: her here, although the Castle Rock Police Department did name her,
Speaker 4: because I'm not trying to shame this woman. I'm trying
Speaker 4: to make a bigger point, and it's an important point
Speaker 4: that has been bothering me for a really, really long time.
Speaker 4: At three pm on a Friday, this woman's preliminary breath
Speaker 4: test showed a blood alcohol content of point three three
Speaker 4: four in her car, a full bottle of wine, five
Speaker 4: open alcoholic beverage containers, and two young children in the backseat.
Speaker 4: This story is so horrifying to me, but in my mind,
Speaker 4: this is the natural outcome of mommy wine culture in
Speaker 4: the United States of America. And maybe wine's not your thing.
Speaker 4: Maybe you're a bourbon gow, maybe you're a whiskey goal,
Speaker 4: maybe you're a beer gal, or maybe you're a dad
Speaker 4: who's driving around with your children in your back seat
Speaker 4: while you're wasted. But I want to talk about women
Speaker 4: right now, because women have now caught up to men
Speaker 4: almost in the category of people dying from alcoholism related diseases,
Speaker 4: and it's very frustrating for me. When I go to
Speaker 4: a gift shop or I go to a women's section
Speaker 4: because I'm trying to buy a gift for my friends,
Speaker 4: and everything says it's wine o'clock sometime, or I drink
Speaker 4: because of you. Yeah, Mommy drinks because of you. That
Speaker 4: was one of my least favorite T shirts I've ever seen.
Speaker 4: And don't get me wrong, I have, you know, lived
Speaker 4: through a portion of my life where alcohol was a
Speaker 4: big part of it. But when I decided to have
Speaker 4: a child, I decided it was time to make different choices.
Speaker 4: And luckily, I've never struggled with addiction of any kind.
Speaker 4: I've never been in that situation, so I don't want
Speaker 4: to downplay how challenging it is to get to overcome
Speaker 4: an addiction. But the thing is, I know so many
Speaker 4: women and men who have overcome their addictions that I
Speaker 4: know it can be done. And I y'all, I said
Speaker 4: a prayer last night for this woman. I don't know her,
Speaker 4: I've never seen her before. I wouldn't know her if
Speaker 4: she walked up and slapped me in the face. I
Speaker 4: said a prayer last night that God would tell her
Speaker 4: that this was her wake up call because her children
Speaker 4: were in the back seat and she's driving them around
Speaker 4: wasted at three o'clock in the afternoon on a Friday. Please,
Speaker 4: like I, if you know her, please get her help
Speaker 4: support her in her sobriety because she's going to die
Speaker 4: and she may take somebody out with her. Right if
Speaker 4: she's going to drive this drunk with her kids in
Speaker 4: the car, she probably thought she was just buzzed. I'm
Speaker 4: just a little buzzed. It's fine. People die at point
Speaker 4: four blood alcohol content. She was at point three three
Speaker 4: four with their kids in the car. Think about this stuff,
Speaker 4: you guys. Your kids deserve you at your best. And
Speaker 4: ask anyone who grew up the child of an alcoholic,
Speaker 4: and they will let you know you are not at
Speaker 4: your best. If you're suffering through that, there's so much
Speaker 4: help out there. Just get it, accept it, and move
Speaker 4: on with your life. We now know there is going
Speaker 4: to be a butt load of ballot initiatives to consider
Speaker 4: this year fourteen. And that's just for the state. We're
Speaker 4: going to have about ten more in Denver alone. Now
Speaker 4: I've already started working on my voter guide of I'm
Speaker 4: doing it this year because there's so much stuff to
Speaker 4: vote on, and I know that many of you don't
Speaker 4: have the time to dig through this stuff on your own,
Speaker 4: so it will definitely be a big voter guide that
Speaker 4: should be out in the next couple of weeks because realistically,
Speaker 4: you guys, ballots drop very very shortly beginning of October,
Speaker 4: so we're a month away from ballots drop. This is
Speaker 4: why I am concerned about the Harris Walls campaign being
Speaker 4: able to stay out of the public eye long enough
Speaker 4: to continue pulling the wall over the eyes of the
Speaker 4: voters and really showing them what they're about. Interesting stuff
Speaker 4: going on there. We'll see if that strategy actually works.
Speaker 4: So that's on the blog today with a list of
Speaker 4: kind of what you can look at if you want
Speaker 4: to start investigating yourself. There's a column today, you guys,
Speaker 4: I just am so sick of this because I'm pretty
Speaker 4: sure that this exact same thing was said in twenty twenty,
Speaker 4: the headline if Republicans want to win, they need Trump
Speaker 4: to lose big to dominate the country once more. Republicans
Speaker 4: need to hasten the move to a post Trump party. Well,
Speaker 4: that didn't work in twenty twenty, did it. Don't get
Speaker 4: me wrong, I'd be you guys. I don't need to
Speaker 4: repeat how I feel. You know, I would love to
Speaker 4: be able to vote for any other Republican candidate at
Speaker 4: this point, but it's he's the candidate. So what am
Speaker 4: I gonna do. I'm not sure he'd go away if
Speaker 4: he lost again. I mean, granted, he's going to be
Speaker 4: super old in four years, but I don't know if
Speaker 4: that would stop him. So there's a whole column about
Speaker 4: why it would be better for Republicans, and Trump lost
Speaker 4: and lost handily. I guess that's supposed to encourage Republicans
Speaker 4: to not vote or something. I honestly couldn't get through
Speaker 4: the whole column, and I put it there just so
Speaker 4: I wouldn't be the only one who saw it. So
Speaker 4: there you go. If you are curious at all about
Speaker 4: the this is kind of like a two minute drill
Speaker 4: right now, with a little longer conversations than I normally do.
Speaker 4: If you're curious about the Redo of Casabanita, are you
Speaker 4: going to see this movie by Trey Stone and Matt Parker.
Speaker 4: You're gonna go see it a rod because I think
Speaker 4: I am the movie. Yeah, Casabanita, Mia Moore. It is
Speaker 4: a movie about the Redo of Casabanita, and it's a
Speaker 4: whole documentary and I'm playing at the Alamo Draft House
Speaker 4: this weekend. I don't know if it's going to have
Speaker 4: a long run or if it's just like this weekend,
Speaker 4: but I want to see it. I think it's interesting
Speaker 4: to me. If it's just this weekend, can't do that.
Speaker 4: But well, you got what you How are you working
Speaker 4: this weekend? What are you work? You're working everything every day,
Speaker 4: every hour. Well that's.
Speaker 5: Because you're anthety a little kbp I action this weekend
Speaker 5: really all kinds of craziness.
Speaker 4: Excellent, Yeah, excellent, indeed, So that is going to be
Speaker 4: out very shortly, and trying to find out. I don't
Speaker 4: know if it's an extended run or not. I'll find
Speaker 4: out from the Alamo Draft House. You like the Alamo
Speaker 4: Draft House? You ever been there?
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 5: I'm literally losing my mind between difference between the Alamo
Speaker 5: Draft House and that's where they show, that's where the
Speaker 5: people walk through with the food, right they bring you
Speaker 5: home like during the entirety of the movie E.
Speaker 4: Done, it's different before the movie starts, it reminds me
Speaker 4: of this place in Orlando that during my lost decade
Speaker 4: of my twenties, there was a and it's probably still there.
Speaker 4: The Enzeon Theater in winter Park, small theater only had
Speaker 4: two screens and they still allowed smoking. And this was like,
Speaker 4: you know, in the early nineties, and my friends and
Speaker 4: I all smoked at the time, so we would sit
Speaker 4: in the back like the bad kids on the bus
Speaker 4: and smoke and drink and eat food. It was glorious,
Speaker 4: absolutely glorious. I like the Alamo Draft House. I think
Speaker 4: they do a good job for what it is. My
Speaker 4: problem is is their chairs are too comfortable, and if
Speaker 4: I'm going to fall asleep watching a movie, It's going
Speaker 4: to be in the comfort of my own home. Okay,
Speaker 4: I'm not going to pay to go fall asleep in
Speaker 4: You're a movie theater. I remember the food being pretty
Speaker 4: dang good. The food was very good last time I
Speaker 4: was there. I haven't been there in a while. We
Speaker 4: just we never started going back to the movies after COVID.
Speaker 4: You know, when the boys were young and now they're
Speaker 4: in their early thirties. When the boys were young, the
Speaker 4: movies were what we did as a family, right. We
Speaker 4: went to the movies. We saw all the movies, and.
Speaker 5: We just haven't done that with Q We do the
Speaker 5: movies pretty often. I would say, yeah, on average, maybe
Speaker 5: once a month. There's just not a lot of movies
Speaker 5: that I want to see. And that's all the superhero movies.
Speaker 4: All the time. We go see those we go see
Speaker 4: and the superhero movies I enjoy. Except you know, Deadpool
Speaker 4: wasn't for me. No, just not for me. Oh you
Speaker 4: did see it. I saw the first twenty five minutes
Speaker 4: of the first one and was like, yep, I'm not
Speaker 4: in the demo for this. Oh yeah, and the third
Speaker 4: one is the most and the most obnoxious. I'm not
Speaker 4: I'm not, I'm not down. It's just not It's not
Speaker 4: for me. So yeah, but but I you know, maybe
Speaker 4: we should start going. But here's the thing, Like I
Speaker 4: just watched the other day the News and daya movie,
Speaker 4: uh Challengers, the tennis movie. Yeah, it was not good.
Speaker 4: And I love Zundeia. I think she's very, very talented
Speaker 4: and I really like her. I love hers, MJ and
Speaker 4: Spider Man. This movie was just awful. You know, when
Speaker 4: you when you can't like anybody in the movie because
Speaker 4: all the characters are so unlikable, You're like, why why
Speaker 4: don't have a movie about all of these unlikable characters.
Speaker 4: It's just ugh, why do I want to? Although have
Speaker 4: I told you you need to watch Tulsa King on Paramount? No,
Speaker 4: you're busy, You're busy telling me about real steel. Sylvester. Oh,
Speaker 4: of course, was just such a great movie, Sylvester Salone.
Speaker 4: It's Tulsa King was created by Taylor Sheridan, who did Yellowstone.
Speaker 4: And I'm not a huge Slice Salone fan, but he
Speaker 4: is so good in this series.
Speaker 5: So you're barking up the wrong tree because we've tried
Speaker 5: Yellowstone a couple times.
Speaker 4: We did too, and I never watched the whole thing,
Speaker 4: and do it. This is really good. It's about Slice
Speaker 4: Salone being a mobster who gets out of prison after
Speaker 4: a twenty five year stretch and basically gets excommunicated by
Speaker 4: the mob to Tulsa to create a criminal organization in Tulsa.
Speaker 4: It is wildly entertaining. There are some really dark humor
Speaker 4: jokes in there that I burst out laughing. So Tulsa
Speaker 4: King Market, it's on Paramount. When we get back, let's
Speaker 4: talk to my realtor, Ed Praiser. Well, how is the
Speaker 4: market going? If you've been sitting on your house waiting
Speaker 4: to sell we're going to tell you when that right
Speaker 4: time might be. We're going to do that next. What
Speaker 4: is happening in the real estate market? I decided to
Speaker 4: check with my realtor, Ed Praether because he knows what's
Speaker 4: going on. Good afternoon, I must say, good morning.
Speaker 8: Ed Hi, ed hie many, thank you for having me, well, thanks.
Speaker 4: For coming on, because you and I had a chat
Speaker 4: yesterday and the market is I'm just going to use
Speaker 4: the word weird right now. Is that a fair assessment
Speaker 4: because things are sort of like everybody's stuck on ready set,
Speaker 4: ready set, ready set, waiting for rates to drop. So
Speaker 4: right now, let's talk about the state of the real
Speaker 4: estate market as it is. There's some good news in
Speaker 4: terms of availability.
Speaker 8: Well, I think you're right on. You know, we've used
Speaker 8: the word weird, strange, you know, somewhat volatile, and that's
Speaker 8: because you know, we've been talking about looking at hoping
Speaker 8: for the fit to make cuts. We see that happening
Speaker 8: sooner than later, but the cuts aren't here yet. And
Speaker 8: so just like you said, we're sort of we're all
Speaker 8: waiting for these and of course we have sort of
Speaker 8: these golden handcuffs. As far as you know, a lot
Speaker 8: of sellers, even with the need to sell, have a
Speaker 8: hard time letting that three percent mortgage go. You know,
Speaker 8: the FED men. At the end of July, we've seen
Speaker 8: a lot of activity though, So you know what I
Speaker 8: mean by that is is more mortgage applications. You know,
Speaker 8: as we foresee and expect a soft landing is going
Speaker 8: to be the reality or hopefully is the reality, as
Speaker 8: well as showings and even offers. But I'll tell you
Speaker 8: it is really specific to property in micro market, meaning
Speaker 8: kind of the neighborhood. You know, is you got to
Speaker 8: be real careful because if you're not positioned well, if
Speaker 8: you're not priced well, the home could easily sit.
Speaker 4: And let's talk about pricing as a part of this,
Speaker 4: because you just mentioned the golden handcuffs, so the mortgage rates.
Speaker 4: But it seems that people who's neighbor and I'm just
Speaker 4: going to use a round number, maybe your neighbors were
Speaker 4: sold home for seven hundred thousand dollars two years ago.
Speaker 4: Your home may not be getting seven hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 4: right now, but the sellers are not ready to make
Speaker 4: those sort of price adjustments.
Speaker 8: Well, you're right on, and it's like we spoke about yesterday.
Speaker 8: You know, I think the word that comes to mind
Speaker 8: when I when we talk about pricing is resilience in
Speaker 8: the metro area. You know, we saw we're going to
Speaker 8: have our August data here within a day or two,
Speaker 8: so certainly I'll fill you in. But you know, between
Speaker 8: June and July, we saw the medium close price basically
Speaker 8: hold steady. And when we see the amount of active inventory,
Speaker 8: you'll peak above that ten thousand units that we haven't
Speaker 8: seen in gosh ten years. But pricing to stay steady
Speaker 8: and where it's at, it's it's incredible. And I think,
Speaker 8: you know, just like you had said, what we're seeing is,
Speaker 8: you know, sellers are not willing to make those those
Speaker 8: price decreases to force the sale. And and because of that,
Speaker 8: I think in many cases you have folks that want
Speaker 8: to sell but may not need to sell.
Speaker 4: Right As a realtor, I think that's got to be
Speaker 4: a nightmare when you go and talk to a potential
Speaker 4: client and they're like, you know, we just want to
Speaker 4: put it on the martgage and see what's going to happen.
Speaker 4: As someone who's trying to make a sale, that's got
Speaker 4: to be like, eh, not your favorite customer to have.
Speaker 8: Everybody's different, and we absolutely understand that, and I think
Speaker 8: what we want is we understand you've been to this
Speaker 8: mandate that bringing a house to market doesn't just happen,
Speaker 8: and the last thing we're going to do is present
Speaker 8: a home if it's not ready to be presented, and shoot,
Speaker 8: with each situation being different, It's okay if we're in
Speaker 8: the range of, hey, here's what we suspect the market
Speaker 8: will bear, it's one thing. It's another thing if a
Speaker 8: seller doesn't want to put the time in and is
Speaker 8: trying to be opportunistic and hit a price that just
Speaker 8: isn't realistic. And we're not doing anybody any any service
Speaker 8: by taking something like that on and having someone go
Speaker 8: through the thrashing around and on market, having showings, having
Speaker 8: if we're far off from day one right on what
Speaker 8: that pricing is and what the reality is going to be.
Speaker 4: So are you finding with the people that you're meeting with?
Speaker 4: What are there? And I'm sure there's a million different
Speaker 4: but I'd love to know kind of a general feel.
Speaker 4: Why are people looking to sell? Are they looking to downsize,
Speaker 4: are they looking to upsize? Are they moving? What are
Speaker 4: you hearing from the people that are in the market
Speaker 4: to sell their homes.
Speaker 8: It's a great question, and just like you said, you know,
Speaker 8: every there's so many different reasons. You know, we see
Speaker 8: a lot of folks that are leaving the state, and
Speaker 8: you know, sometimes it's gosh, we hear things like traffic,
Speaker 8: We hear things around the cost of living. You know,
Speaker 8: we have a lot of folks moving to the south.
Speaker 8: We hear the Carolinas a lot, and frankly, you know,
Speaker 8: we have seen just the cost of things go up
Speaker 8: across the board. And so you know, although many folks
Speaker 8: don't need to sell, we see a lot of folks
Speaker 8: that want to just to make it a little bit
Speaker 8: more bearable. And maybe those are folks that have a
Speaker 8: long standing mortgage that is, you know, not the sixth
Speaker 8: or the seven that we've seen as of recent and
Speaker 8: sometimes it is sort of in the last eighteen months
Speaker 8: or the last two years they've purchased the home and
Speaker 8: kind of realized that, hey, this equation doesn't work. I
Speaker 8: think the majority of the time we see folks downsizing,
Speaker 8: but it really does. It varies across the board.
Speaker 4: So if you're talking to someone who's kind of one
Speaker 4: of those people saying, look, you know, we're trying to
Speaker 4: decide whether we're going to list right now. We're expecting
Speaker 4: and I'm trying to not be overly confident, but I
Speaker 4: expect the FED to drop the interest rates at least
Speaker 4: twenty five basis points, which is basically a quarter of
Speaker 4: a percent in September. Is Do you feel the same way,
Speaker 4: and if so, is that going to unleash buyers who
Speaker 4: are able to say, look, okay, you know what it's
Speaker 4: it's not two percent but five Maybe low sixes is
Speaker 4: a manageable thing, because I've seen mortgages in the low
Speaker 4: six is now.
Speaker 8: Absolutely, and we're seeing stuff quoted in the high fives
Speaker 8: right now. Okay, there's sort of this unspoken rule, and
Speaker 8: we've heard it again and again, especially lately, that you know,
Speaker 8: we need to see rates in the mid five for
Speaker 8: people to really want to make that jump board to
Speaker 8: let go of that three percent mortgage. So you know,
Speaker 8: we're watching really closely. But I do expect that activity
Speaker 8: will continue to increase, and we've seen it since the
Speaker 8: end of July, you know, quite frankly, and with that,
Speaker 8: you are certainly in correlation to those mortgage rates going down.
Speaker 8: You know, the narrative and understanding when we look at
Speaker 8: the cuts that we expect is that to some extent,
Speaker 8: it's already baked into the rate. You know that that
Speaker 8: those cuts we're all looking at and expecting the same
Speaker 8: thing that September, you know, twenty five basis points, maybe
Speaker 8: fifty basis points. But I think the reality is is
Speaker 8: that we're going to see a big jump in activity
Speaker 8: as people become more optimistic about the future.
Speaker 10: You're right.
Speaker 8: I talked yesterday about you know, it's not just the
Speaker 8: rate itself, it's the news around the rate. It's the
Speaker 8: news around the future and the economy and having optimism
Speaker 8: about you know, hey, maybe this is still a little
Speaker 8: bit high now, but it can work and in the
Speaker 8: future it's going to be lower. And it looks to
Speaker 8: me and we expect that that is going to be
Speaker 8: the case, and hopefully that starts in just a couple
Speaker 8: of weeks when the dead needs.
Speaker 4: You started this conversation by talking about, you know, neighborhood
Speaker 4: specific Some neighborhoods are selling faster than others. But if
Speaker 4: you've got money that you'd like to invest in real estate,
Speaker 4: are there any deals right now? Are people sitting on
Speaker 4: those prices waiting for them to come down.
Speaker 8: I would say that there are always deals. The deals
Speaker 8: come up when it's very specific to that seller. So
Speaker 8: it's hard for me to say that in one area
Speaker 8: there's more deals than another area because someone that you know,
Speaker 8: we deal with folks in certain cases that have to
Speaker 8: get to family in another state very quickly, and of
Speaker 8: course with a fdicial duty, it is our job, it
Speaker 8: is our responsibility to get them the very most. But
Speaker 8: if they don't want to bring it to market, you know,
Speaker 8: that may be, you know, create an opportunity for a
Speaker 8: buyer and someone who who potentially has the ability to
Speaker 8: take care of some of those repairs that certain sellers
Speaker 8: don't want to mess with, or bringing to market, and
Speaker 8: or even bringing it to market at all. We have
Speaker 8: a lot of folks that just say, hey, you know,
Speaker 8: we need to do this quickly. You know, do you
Speaker 8: have somebody that might be interested in And of course,
Speaker 8: like you and I have time, We've got a big database,
Speaker 8: so you know, most of the time we can get
Speaker 8: that done at a price that makes sense for everybody.
Speaker 4: So I wanted to ask you about the buyers that
Speaker 4: you're seeing. Are these first time home buyers, because I
Speaker 4: feel like there are a lot of i'll call them
Speaker 4: middle millennials who are ready to buy a hole right
Speaker 4: and they've maybe been sitting out waiting for those lower
Speaker 4: mortgage rates. What do you seeing on the buy side
Speaker 4: who is out there shopping.
Speaker 8: We do see a lot of first time home buyers,
Speaker 8: and I think, you know, first time home buyers want
Speaker 8: to want to own a home because the concept of
Speaker 8: owning a home has been something that they're you know,
Speaker 8: part of their goals. They're part of something that they
Speaker 8: have set forth in what they want for their lives,
Speaker 8: and they're less concerned about, you know, some of the
Speaker 8: complexities and implications. I think that maybe some of us,
Speaker 8: like you and I many kind of overthink, yeah, we're
Speaker 8: trying to guess what's going to happen here and there.
Speaker 8: I mean, you know, frankly speaking, we believe fully, you
Speaker 8: know that in the next few quarters you're going to
Speaker 8: see rates come down, and so, you know, we've seen
Speaker 8: first time home buyers be pretty active, gosh over the
Speaker 8: last couple of years, because we remember what it was
Speaker 8: like in twenty twenty one. You could not you couldn't
Speaker 8: get an offer accept and especially as a home, first
Speaker 8: time home buyer, when you don't have a big down payment,
Speaker 8: it's even so we are seeing a lot of opportunistic
Speaker 8: folks take advantage. And you know, those people so far
Speaker 8: have done quite well because they are taking action when
Speaker 8: when some of us are overthinking things.
Speaker 4: Right, sometimes making a decision is better than waffling about
Speaker 4: a decision, especially when I actually think ed and you
Speaker 4: and I talked about this yesterday. I think when we
Speaker 4: have the first rate cut, the market heats up. If
Speaker 4: there is another rate cut in December, which that's it's
Speaker 4: more debatable than the rate cut that I'm pretty certain
Speaker 4: is going to happen in September. But if that rate
Speaker 4: cut happens in December, then it becomes a feeding frenzy
Speaker 4: and and that's when it becomes again a seller's market.
Speaker 4: And if you're sitting on the sidelines now as a
Speaker 4: potential buyer, I think you're missing opportunities that are out
Speaker 4: there right this second. Because what do they say, ed,
Speaker 4: you date the rate, you marry the house, right, you
Speaker 4: don't have to worry about marrying the rate the rate
Speaker 4: you can reach later. So I've just been telling like
Speaker 4: young people that I know have been sitting on the sidelines.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I would really look right now because you
Speaker 4: don't want to be in it when everybody else is
Speaker 4: in it. You want to be in it before everybody.
Speaker 8: Else is in it. And I think you're absolutely right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So if you want to buy or sell, it's
Speaker 4: time to call Ed pray Or He and his team
Speaker 4: are the absolute best. Ed give everybody your phone number.
Speaker 8: Uh seven two oh six five nine four nine five nine,
Speaker 8: excuse me, seven to sixty five oh four nine five nine.
Speaker 8: You know we are here to inform, you know, in
Speaker 8: a big part of this man you said, some folks
Speaker 8: are considering selling maybe is it now? Is it in
Speaker 8: the future? And on the same side is buying if
Speaker 8: nothing else? You know, we are really focused and really
Speaker 8: committed and just empowering our folks of information, you know,
Speaker 8: so they can make an educated choice for themselves. And
Speaker 8: I'll tell you what. As a buyer right now, you know,
Speaker 8: you've got to be disimprinted in what's a fit because
Speaker 8: there's great opportunities and you don't need to bend over backwards.
Speaker 8: And it's been a long time since we have been
Speaker 8: able to say that. So if your discipline, you've got
Speaker 8: more inventory than you used to, and I think it's
Speaker 8: a great time to start the process.
Speaker 4: Well, I do know that you know, I'm on reeltor
Speaker 4: dot com all the time, and like really, for someone
Speaker 4: who's not actively in the market, I know way more
Speaker 4: about what houses are sitting and where than I should, Okay,
Speaker 4: And I do know that there are especially if you're
Speaker 4: a first time home buyer looking to get into the
Speaker 4: condo market, now is the time to get into the
Speaker 4: condo market because there's a lot of condos on the
Speaker 4: listing sites right now, so there are opportunities. And Ed
Speaker 4: would be the guy I would always recommend Edprather dot com,
Speaker 4: Ed p R A T H e R dot com.
Speaker 4: And I appreciate you.
Speaker 3: He always a.
Speaker 8: Pleasure to be on. Thank you so much, manmy, and
Speaker 8: just let us know how we can help.
Speaker 4: I sure will, thanks Ed. He is Uh, he's just fantastic.
Speaker 4: And interesting times in the real estate market right now,
Speaker 4: very interesting, not bad, not great, interesting And what is
Speaker 4: the old curse? MAYE live in interesting times? Ryan Edwards?
Speaker 4: We do live in interesting times. Indeed, I thought of you,
Speaker 4: uh on Monday morning or when I was at Target, Okay,
Speaker 4: because I swung by the Starbucks to get my car.
Speaker 4: I just do regular coffee, then I don't do the
Speaker 4: fancy coffee. And a woman in front of me literally went.
Speaker 9: Just like this.
Speaker 4: She picked up her coffee with PSL, I missed you,
Speaker 4: And I was like, what is in that coffee cup?
Speaker 4: Is there crack? What is in it that makes it addictive? Yes?
Speaker 4: It is laced with heroin and all me a, why
Speaker 4: do you think we all drink Coca Cola to the
Speaker 4: day it started out with? Come on, you think that's
Speaker 4: a coincidence.
Speaker 12: I think in general, coffee and caffeine, right, yeah, coffee
Speaker 12: can represent, you know, sort of a source of happiness
Speaker 12: and and because it's only for a certain amount of time,
Speaker 12: there's a specialness to it, like like Starbucks could do this.
Speaker 4: Your scarcity is what you're talking about, garcity of it
Speaker 4: makes it special. You know what's funny about coffee culture
Speaker 4: in the United States versus coffee culture in Europe totally different.
Speaker 4: They're the only thing that connects them is they are
Speaker 4: both coffee related. But in Europe they don't have to
Speaker 4: go cups. You are not the only people that walk
Speaker 4: around Europe with a to go cup of coffee are
Speaker 4: Americans because they sit and they have their little cups,
Speaker 4: and they sit and enjoy their coffee and they have
Speaker 4: a conversation and then they get up and go about
Speaker 4: their day. It's funny.
Speaker 12: I have a limited Europe one time. But now that
Speaker 12: you bring it up, yeah I didn't. I didn't think
Speaker 12: about it at the time. But everywhere we went and
Speaker 12: got coffee, it was a we sit here and have
Speaker 12: coffee and have coffee.
Speaker 4: And I told Chuck the first three months of my retirement,
Speaker 4: I fully intend to spend in laws on Switzerland, on
Speaker 4: the shores of Lake Geneva, sitting and drinking little coffee
Speaker 4: out of little cups. Switzerland is so bod oh. It
Speaker 4: is probably my favorite place in the world other than
Speaker 4: the United States. Switzerland is number two. Can't wait to
Speaker 4: go back there in the summer. It's on my list
Speaker 4: of things to do. So I have to ask you
Speaker 4: a question about your show yesterday because a listener pointed
Speaker 4: out that Dave Logan was kind of giving you grief
Speaker 4: a little bit about.
Speaker 12: Losing out the day well deserved, and I was talking
Speaker 12: to Anthey about it. I mean, my brain locked up
Speaker 12: and it was one of those deals where I mean
Speaker 12: people can say they've been there or they won't. But
Speaker 12: for whatever reason, my brain on a Tuesday after a
Speaker 12: three day holiday weekend was just not not quite braining.
Speaker 4: But did Dave Logan say he could win of the day?
Speaker 4: Was that actually said? Because so pretty sure I'm going
Speaker 4: to drop the gauntlet right in front of mister Logan.
Speaker 4: Good luck with that, but.
Speaker 10: Go on trying that.
Speaker 12: But yeah, he did say something about that. I mean,
Speaker 12: he is his brain is pretty phenomenal resault.
Speaker 4: The thing that kills me about Dave Logan when I
Speaker 4: listen to your show is when he's like that game
Speaker 4: back in eighty seven. We were on the third and
Speaker 4: seven and there was a sweep to the right, and
Speaker 4: I'm like, what else is in there? It blows my mind.
Speaker 12: Brain man, makes it quite literally impossible to get into
Speaker 12: an argument about anything because I'm like, that didn't happen.
Speaker 4: And I already know as soon as I say that,
Speaker 4: you're going to come on, it definitely happened. Yeah, it's
Speaker 4: it's it's really remarkable think about. And this is what
Speaker 4: I imagine if David decided to cure cancer instead just
Speaker 4: saying just throwing that out.
Speaker 12: There, he and again the things he does already right now,
Speaker 12: but it just feels like because of his brain.
Speaker 4: You're right, he could be doing so much more.
Speaker 12: I say that lovingly because as it is, I don't
Speaker 12: know if the man ever sleeps because he has so
Speaker 12: much on his plate.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, it's all self imposed. And don't feel too
Speaker 4: sorry for him. Don't cry for him, Argentina, because now
Speaker 4: it's time for the most exciting segment all the radio
Speaker 4: of it's kind in the world of the day. All right,
Speaker 4: what's our dada? Which letter keeps pirates calm?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 4: No, he because without it they are irate.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, that's actually again.
Speaker 4: I like that better than why they can't finish the alphabet?
Speaker 4: Why is that because they get lost? That's oh well, okay.
Speaker 4: I when is our word of the day?
Speaker 11: Please?
Speaker 5: It is an adjective adjective Byzantine Byzantine by z A
Speaker 5: N T I N E.
Speaker 4: Byzantine. Familiar with the word, and I don't think I
Speaker 4: can clearly define either. I got nothing something to do
Speaker 4: with the Byzantine Empire.
Speaker 5: No, something described as Byzantine is very complicated, secret and
Speaker 5: hard to Oh got it?
Speaker 4: Okay, that's good. I don't think I ever knew that
Speaker 4: word meant until right now. Anyway, In geometry, what is
Speaker 4: an isaucles triangle? I've been thinking about this all day
Speaker 4: and I think I know it well. Isaucles? Isn't that
Speaker 4: the because because there's there's acute, which has a tiny
Speaker 4: angle at an angle, and then oblong is the wider angle.
Speaker 4: But that's not a triangle. Isn't it one of the
Speaker 4: two of the same size? Yeah, that's what I thought
Speaker 4: it was gonna get a triangle with two sides of
Speaker 4: equal links. There is the two angles opposite. The equal
Speaker 4: sides are also equal. There is, it's just even Stevens.
Speaker 4: There you go, all right? What is our jeopardy category?
Speaker 4: Another easy one for Ryan? Don't please God? It is episode.
Speaker 4: I'd rather be anything else. Episode. Every answer has E
Speaker 4: p I. Okay, there you go. There you go. A
Speaker 4: fast spreading outbreak of a disease. What's an epidemic?
Speaker 5: Correct a short section at the end of a book
Speaker 5: from the Greek for seizure. It's a medieval condition, his epilepsy.
Speaker 4: Ryan's on the board. A witty saying or expression and
Speaker 4: an epithet.
Speaker 10: No raw.
Speaker 5: Brian saying or expression is epigram. I would have gotten
Speaker 5: that so one, I just lost a point. The best
Speaker 5: example of something, best example of.
Speaker 9: I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Let's go to a tiebreaker. It is epitome. Epitome. Um,
Speaker 4: oh my, there's my Ryan. That's okay, epitome everyone.
Speaker 5: Okay, it's okay because I was an epi.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Ryan, watch yourself. Let's go to.
Speaker 5: Play time. Okay, playtime. The French called this floor or
Speaker 5: table game.
Speaker 11: You know what.
Speaker 5: No, I'm not gonna I'm gonna do that one. Shoots
Speaker 5: and Ladders began as a hindoo game of these and ladders. Brian, Ryan,
Speaker 5: I knew that one too, some free and fast enough
Speaker 5: the epitome of success.
Speaker 12: You guys, you guys set this up so I feel
Speaker 12: a little better about myself.
Speaker 4: To look that much like a fool. I didn't even
Speaker 4: let my child win a candy Land when she was four.
Speaker 4: You will never get a gift here. You don't believe
Speaker 4: I have the.
Speaker 12: Same mentality right about bold everything like when they win,
Speaker 12: I want them to know they won the correct exactly.
Speaker 4: And there's nobody gets a freebie from Mars. And you
Speaker 4: know what, when she won the first time, she literally
Speaker 4: danced around with her fingers in my face, so I
Speaker 4: knew I'd done it right. We'll be back tomorrow. Oka
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